Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the Belgian Ambassador's perturbation. Washington society gasped at the ferocity of the Post's attack. The Diplomatic Corps was loyally unanimous in its explanation of what lay behind the Post's report and comment. Chorused the diplomatists (in effect...
Charles Gates Dawes went to Santo Domingo a month ago as a Chicago banker and onetime U. S. Budget Director to devise a budgetary and accounting system for that diminutive republic. When he returned last week to Manhattan aboard the S. S. San Lorenzo he was the newly-appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Retiring Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who also returned to the U. S. last week, predicted a "happy and successful term" for Ambassador Dawes...
This point was the very core of the U. S. proposals presented in Geneva a fortnight ago by Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, personal friend and confidential representative of Mr. Hoover. At the earliest opportunity last week Comrade Litvinov rose and moved a resolution closely paraphrasing Mr. Gibson's speech. The delegates of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission were asked by the cheerful Russian to declare that they are engaged in promoting "drastic reduction of armaments...
...rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week she stood in a smart Paris frock at the right hand of the Son of Heaven, and made gracious small talk in soft, Washingtonian English with the British Prince...
Died. George Augustus Peabody, 97, of Danvers, Mass., oldest living graduate of Harvard College (1852), gentleman farmer, big game hunter, world traveler; in Danvers. Among his classmates was the late Joseph Hodges Choate, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...