Word: ambassador
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dinner was long and formal?too formal for Ambassador Dawes, master of diplomatic informality. Even before dessert was passed, Ambassador Dawes got up from his place and wandered off to talk to old friends at another table...
...Speech. After Lord Desborough's introduction, embroidered with such quips and quiddities as all Yeomen of the guard insist on. Ambassador Dawes stood up, pulled a typed manuscript from his pocket, apologized for reading his speech, but said its importance made reading necessary. The Pilgrims leaned forward on their chairs to catch the sound of his thin, high-pitched staccato voice. The major diplomats at the speakers' table were less excited. Earlier in the day Diplomat Dawes had asked them to read his speech in advance...
...only way to travel," but announced no further disarmament plans. His proposed visit to the U. S.? loudly protested by Tories as undignified toadying to a foreign country? disappeared for the time being into a mist of postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick (TIME, May 6), headed for London to confer. Waiting for him. Ambassador Dawes, like any tourist, lunched at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, sat in Dr. Johnson's chair, ate two helpings of veal...
...Since April, the Pilgrims have given banquets for Retiring-Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, World Court Judge Charles Evans Hughes. Only the decision of venerable Klihu Root not to go to England after all on his return from Geneva (TIME, April 1) prevented their dining...
...From now on, the King's health will be drunk only in water at the American Embassy in London. Last week, Ambassador Dawes issued an order banning the drinking of alcoholic liquors in the Embassy holding that U. S. territory is U. S. soil...