Word: ambassador
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charles Gates Dawes, violinist, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, once in his spare time wrote a simple Melody in A Major which is heard in the U. S. chiefly on a phonograph record by Violinist Fritz Kreisler. Ambassador Dawes is today a London vogue. So, reported Publishers Boosey & Co., is his Melody in A Major. Orchestras play it in leading restaurants. Sheet-music sales are great. His Master's Voice and the Columbia companies will soon issue new recordings. Fortnight ago William F. Kenny, rich...
...secretary at No. 10 Downing Street, dingy brick residence of Britain's Prime Minister, answered the telephone, started slightly, and later said that what he had heard was: "Hello? This is Charlie Dawes. Tell the Prime Minister I'm coming right over"?click! Within 15 minutes the Ambassador was at No. 10. Heartily greeted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he planked down on the long table in the Cabinet Room a new naval offer from President Herbert Hoover...
...slender, patrician Englishman who rose to reply is Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission...
...Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, Aviation, Colonies, Public Works, Corporation. *The fourth Quadrumvir is Count de Vecchi. He got no Cabinet post. Instead, some time ago, he received the imposing honor of appointment as the Kingdom of Italy's first Ambassador to the new Vatican City...
Thus far proceedings had been sufficiently decorous, but now Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina and not a member of the d'Abernon Trade Mission, hove up upon his feet and cried: "Let the price of Argentine meat and wheat rise! Thanks to the work which you are going to give the British workman he will be able to meet these conditions with the extra money which will be put in his pocket...