Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador, especially to France, he would be most fortunate in his wife. His first wife, Lady Lee Phillips of Memphis, died in 1915. Six years ago, aged 48, he married Miss Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, some 20 years his junior, beauteous daughter of a rich and celebrated ship-building family of Bath, Me. She has borne him four children (the fourth arrived last month [TIME, May 6]). There are few things which the French admire more than Beauty, Motherhood, Wealth...
...years ago last Monday, Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew from New York for Paris. The flight made him a Hero (with the aid of the late great Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick). It made the U. S. air-minded (through the astuteness of Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune...
...maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected and believed that he attended a dinner at the Belgian Embassy in a disgraceful and drunken condition and that at such a dinner he had annoyed and shocked guests of the Belgian Ambassador and that the Belgian Ambassador was perplexed and ordered the plaintiff to leave in order to save his other guests from further embarrassment." In his declaration Plaintiff McLean said that "the plaintiff did not attend a dinner at the Belgian Embassy referred to in the article hereinafter complained...
What, then, caused Publisher McLean's Washington Post's editorial discourtesy to the Belgian Ambassador, Prince Albert Edouard Eugene Lamoral de Ligne? What moved Friend of Belgium Herbert Hoover to ask the Prince de Ligne to a small dinner as a special mark of esteem? Publisher McLean said he did not. And that being so, President Hoover's courtesy to the Prince was not, said Plaintiff McLean, a "squelching" of Publisher McLean-as the Philadelphia Record had said...
...island's rocky, windswept shore briskly stepped a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert. When he arrived at a white, two-story, shingled house, surrounded by towering trees, thick shrubs, he turned in at its gate. North Haven townsfolk had told him this was the summer home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow; that the blue-shirted rustic hoeing in the garden was Caretaker Hubert O. Grant. Quietly the young man approached the caretaker, spoke: "Good morning, sir. I'm sick. The doctor has told me to stay outdoors. Can you give me a job?" As down-Easters will...