Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duchess of Athol, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, to be presented to the President by British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard...
After practicing law locally with West Virginia coal men for his clients, John William Davis became internationally famed. He went to Congress for four years, then was U. S. Solicitor General, then went to the Court of St. James's as U. S. Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat...
...will resemble all other U. S. legations to the extent of having for its telegraphic and cable address the code word "Amlegation." Citizens of the U. S. who rove abroad would do well to remember also that in capitals where the U. S. is represented by an Ambassador his address is "Amembassy," plus, of course, the name of the city where the Embassy is located...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-The ambassador enters the boudoir from motives less personal than patriotic (TIME...
...Thomas Cochrans (Morgan partner since 1917) all lived in Englewood, N. J., across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since the War Mr. Lamont has become (next to John Pierpont Morgan) the best known Morgan partner and U. S. international financier. Mr. Morrow is currently the outstanding U. S. diplomat-Ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Cochran became the Morgan partner on the board of General Motors, and, like Mr. Davison before him, chairman of the executive committee of the Bankers Trust Co. For Henry Pomeroy Davison died in 1922, aged 55, having given to the Red Cross so much of his apparently...