Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Followed a fanfare of trumpets. These military sounds in the House of God prefaced a great thanksgiving service for the King's recovery. Present in the Abbey were King George and Queen Mary, members of the royal family, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, members of the Diplomatic Corps and as many of the people of London as could crowd inside the doors. At the same time thanksgiving services were held in all other churches throughout the Empire...
...Familiar to Washington is the new Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara, onetime (1919-22) Ambassador to the U. S. Bright eyed, ever smiling, Baron Shidehara would be an agreeable, helpful principal in any conference on naval reductions. As Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Wakatsuki, preceding Baron Tanaka, he inaugurated the policy of conciliation with China which Tanaka so disastrously upset...
...many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a half-hour before her time, indignantly departed when informed that she could not immediately go on the air. Radio men, including Mr. Sarnoff, followed her to Manhattan's Ambassador, argued earnestly, then acidly. When it was pointed out that Her Majesty was accustomed to having her will accepted as law, Mr. Sarnoff replied: "From our standpoint, Her Majesty is merely a paid entertainer...
...section would again take its place in the front pages. Admitting that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons he learns to recognize is a very tall, very lean, very sunburned man with a decided aquiline nose, a pleasant smile. "That's Russell Doubleday...
Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Beilby Francis Alston, 60, British Ambassador to Brazil, onetime Chargé d'Affaires at Peking; in London...