Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strengths of naval ships of different nations according to an algebraic formula (TIME, May 6). Last week the Preparatory Disarmament Commission adjourned without having so much as debated or considered the merits of the Hoover Formula. From the first the President's representative-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium-had been ready to divulge details of the formula in confidence to those nations which asked...
...Formula back into his brief case and returned to his diplomatic post-Brussels. Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass the report on to the Cabinet. Meanwhile the formula is conveniently shelved and thus kept out of the political campaigns that are swaying...
Seemingly President Hoover is well pleased that Ambassador Gibson has contented himself with stating these principles' broadly and keeping the Hoover Formula in his pocket. For, last week, Secretary of State Stimson cabled to Mr. Gibson...
...days later the U. S. Ambassador at Berlin, dignified, popular Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, sat discreetly silent at a banquet while famed German Foreign Minister and Peace Prizer Dr. Gustav Stresemann flayed the Hoover-Gibson attitude by implication thus...
Richard Washburn Child '03, recent ambassador to Italy and a former president of the Advocate board, and Thomas Williams Slocum '90, presidents of the Harvard Club of New York City, were the principal speakers, together with Julian Street, noted author, and B.A. De Voto '18. Nickerson acted as toastmaster...