Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week an arbitration treaty between the U. S. and France was signed at Washington by Under-Secretary of State Robert E. Olds and Poet-Statesman-Mystic Paul Claudel, French Ambassador...
With the Congress tying itself into great gooseknots of partisanship, there was little for the Chief Executive to do last week except consult, wait, worry about his Administration's legislative program, and attend to matters of ceremony. C. The new German Ambassador, Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz-Gaffron, arrived in Washington. President Coolidge received him, studied him. He was a youngish man, only 44, with the lean cheeks and high temples of an intellectual, the strong wrists of an excellent hockey and tennis player, the sleek garb and easy tongue of a society man. His English was almost entirely...
Chief Argentine Delegate Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S. created a mild stir by proposing a Pan-American treaty of commerce leveling tariff barriers between the signatory states. Naturally this idea went glimmering when Mr. Hughes intimated firmly that no such proposal had, to his knowledge, a place in the set Conference agenda (TIME...
President Lowell will extend the welcome of the University to Nobile Giacomo De Martino. Italian Ambassador to the United States, at a luncheon given by the Circolo Italiano in honor of the statesmen at the Harvard Union at 1 o'clock today, it was announced last night by J. J. Faggiano '29, president of the Circolo Italiano. Following the meal Ambassador De Martino will be conducted about the University...
Last week in Manhattan, at the Ambassador Hotel, were shown 20 reproductions of famed paintings. These were not prints, photographs, copies, but facsimiles, produced according to a new and secret formula, to be known as Belvedere Facsimiles. Made in Vienna by one Ulf Seidl, painter, aided by scientific associates, their purpose was to reproduce, not merely the drawing, the light and shade, the color, the texture of the original painting, but to reproduce perfectly and precisely all these details, so that the appearance of the reproduction should be identical with the appearance of the original. In this purpose the Belvedere...