Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into the President's study marched French Ambassador Claudel with two young men, one black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want...
...south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis, the country grew apprehensive for the punctual ambassador...
...order to jam through the Canal protecting clause, U. S. Delegate Henry Prather Fletcher (also U. S. Ambassador to Italy) was obliged to declare roundly...
...anger, not in malice, came measured words of protest, last week, from His Excellency Dr. Gustav Sthamer, German Ambassador to the Court of George...
...plan was hit a blow by implication of a resolution introduced at the Pan-American conference, that any American republic may restrict immigration "from a non-American continent." The Latin-American republics were unanimously in favor of the resolution, and it was all ready for passage when United States Ambassador Fletcher, whose duty it has been to puncture such ambitions, rose with a reservation to the terms of agreement, which would render it worthless from the South and Central American point of view. Both of these misunderstandings have now been laid aside, possibly as unbecoming a conference. Meanwhile, although...