Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Charles Gates Dawes, new-fledged Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, shrewd, Rooseveltian master of the art of self-projection, greet the British nation last week. The international air had suddenly become filled with clouds of incense and Anglo-American goodwill. Prime Minister MacDonald was planning to go and talk with President Hoover about naval disarmament. Astute Mr. Dawes made it clear that he would try to keep beatific sentiment from cloying by playing his role of hustling, plainspoken, rough-diamond American...
Even before he left the S. S. Olympic, he unhinged his famed underslung pipe and explained its mechanism to fascinated European journalists. Told of the intensive social obligations of an Ambassador, the heavy dinners he must endure, he replied: "I've been dining out in Washington for four years and have yet to remember gaining anything from it. I would as soon talk diplomacy with a man with a pipe in his mouth as any other way. My first two months in England will be reserved for my dear old friends of the British Army and the reparations dealings...
Frank Billings Kellogg: Late Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State: ever eager in each office to abate recourse...
...Adams, administered from 1885 to 1892. Then came Jacob Gould Schurman. In 1899, Dr. Schurman was chief of the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines. In 1912-13 he served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro. After resigning from Cornell in 1920, he was U. S. Ambassador to China. Now, since 1925, he has been a successor to Co-Founder White at Berlin...
Mario G. Menocal, '88, onetime (1913-21) President of Cuba. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, '01, Chinese Ambassador to London...