Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, most exciting of all, Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, chair-man of the U. S. Delegation to the League of Nations preparatory Arms Conference at Geneva, delivered at Geneva the Hoover formula for reduction (not limitation) of naval armaments. How would the Powers take to his plan? Carefully, secretly President Hoover had planted his armament reduction idea in Chief Delegate Gibson's mind during quiet White House evenings a month ago, when the Powers despaired of success at the forthcoming conference...
...guard on Amherst football teams when slender, rusty-haired Calvin Coolidge was there at college, a class behind. A powerful man of 200 lb., he knocked the wind out of President Hoover in one of the medicine-ball games last month. For two days little Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium (see p. 21), bore a red mark on his nose after attempting to catch one of Justice Stone's mighty throws. The Stone roughness was sufficient to cause protests to the President; reminders that, after...
...President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as follows: "It has recently been my privilege to discuss the general problem of disarmament at considerable length with President Hoover. I am in a position to realize, perhaps as well as anyone, how earnestly he feels that the pact for the renunciation of war opens for us an unprecedented opportunity for advancing...
...Measuring Stick." Engineers like to express themselves in letters and symbols. Without saying so officially, Ambassador Gibson conveyed unmistakably to correspondents that he had received from President Hoover a draft formula or naval "measuring stick," in which "A" stood for age, "C" for calibre, "D" for displacement. The list of categories remains as under Calvin Coolidge: 1) Capital Ships; 2) Aircraft Carriers (both of these already limited under the Washington Conference Treaty); 3) Cruisers; 4) Destroyers; 5) Submarines. With correspondents Mr. Gibson went so far as to indicate, several days after his speech, that the British had not even...
...Turf and Field, whose wife is the daughter of Mrs. E. Guidet Auchincloss, of Paris. The wives of partners Alexandre and Count Andre de Saint Phalle are sisters. They were Helen and Jacqueline Harper, daughters of Donald Harper, of Paris, who has been mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France. His son, Donald Jr., is a partner in de Saint Phalle & Co. Partner Francois de Saint Phalle manages the Philadelphia office. Before forming the present firm, Fal de Saint Phalle was a partner in Gude, VVinmill & Co. The two houses work closely together in many an important deal. Branches...