Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City, Empire Day was celebrated at the Hotel Plaza. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., addressed the members of the newly formed British Commonwealth Club. His speech was chiefly explanatory. He said...
Unlike Stanley Baldwin, Ambassador Howard remembered to pay tribute to Queen Victoria in whose honor Empire Day was started...
Standing in the garden of the presidential palace at Lima are U. S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore, widower of famed Lillian Russell; short-legged President Augusto Leguia of Peru; bland Ambassador Emiliano Figueroa-Larrain of Chile...
...smile on Mr. Moore's face while the photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile...
Paul Louis Charles Claudel, poet, novelist, French Ambassador to the U.S., spoke in Manhattan last week to the Catholic Actors Guild. Said he: "I am sure [you] are all good Catholics and very good actors. As for myself, if I try to be a good Catholic I am not at all sure to be a good actor on that very catholic scene of Washington diplomacy, where ambassadors have to play their part in a kind of international revue and all-day performance before a tolerant but slightly bored public...