Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convened, heard President Hoover's message, received 309 bills, postponed legislative debate a week. ¶ Confirmed Charles Gates Dawes as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Joseph M. Dixon as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Charles James Rhoads as Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
...ambassador to France still had to be found by President Hoover. The names of General Pershing, Alvan Tufts Fuller, Frederick Henry Prince seemed eliminated. Other names brought forward included New Jersey's Senator Walter Evans Edge, New York's onetime (1915-27) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth jr., Ohio's automobile-maker John North Willys...
...Curtis banged his gavel until the muttering chamber was as quiet as a schoolroom, before he would permit Chaplain E. Barney Thorne Phillips to pray. The President's call was read, four Senators were sworn in. Ohio's Burton delivered a long, moving eulogy of the late ambassador to France, Myron Timothy Herrick. Then Indiana's Watson, now officially the majority leader, uncrossed his legs, swung himself out of his seat, moved adjournment, thus postponing commencement of the Senate's work until another...
...escorted by the U. S. cruisers Marblehead and Cincinnati, passed Ambrose Lightship, moved somberly through Quarantine and up New York Harbor. On her quarterdeck, under the after gun turret, rested a flag-draped coffin of rosewood. Within the coffin lay the body of Myron Timothy Herrick, late U. S. Ambassador to France, going home...
...came to America to see what's at the bottom of all this 'Prosperity' of yours." said the General Director last week in his suite at Manhattan's Ambassador. "Take bathrooms for instance. Extr'ord'nary how little your hotel men spend on bathrooms! They tell me one really can't pay over $1,500 in New York for a bathroom with the finest standard fittings. Now in London what do you suppose we have to pay? Not less than ?1,000, or almost 5,000 of your dollars!" Though obviously keen...