Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abroad, the scene was idyllic. Edward VII of England, with two more years to reign, visited his nephew, Nicholas II of Russia, at Reval. Wilhelm of Germany, busy building warships, warmly welcomed Dr. David Jayne Hill, the new U. S. Ambassador. He explained his growing Navy as follows: "Every German warship launched is one more guarantee for peace on earth...
...choice was an able, amiable little Jew who now occupies an office across the hall from Governor Smith at Albany-Attorney-General Albert Ottinger. For its senatorial candidate the party looked far aloof and picked out no less a personage than droop-lidded, bespectacled Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, famed debunker of hands-across-the-sea, prosperous glassmaker of Corning, N. Y. Mr. Houghton, in London, accepted the nomination, started home...
fears twinkled in the eyes of King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week. He was standing in Euston Station, London. He was listening to Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the Marquis de Merry del Val.* As he listened, the tears trickled down his olive cheeks, and correspondents counted three...
Under the auspices of the College League two prizes of $1000. will be given by Mrs. James W. Gerard, wife of the former Ambassador to Germany, for the best two essays written by college students or graduates of not more than two years standing on the subject, "Why Alfred E. Smith Should be Elected President of the United States." One prize will go for the best essay submitted by a man and the other for the best submitted by a woman...
...Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror. This was the Hearst tabloid, although it has been temporarily "owned" by U. S. Ambassador to Peru Alexander Pollock Moore...