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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laughlin has a potency approaching that of Carnegie, Frick, Mellon. Pittsburgh's steel-minded burghers do homage to the firm name: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Last week, on recommendation of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed. President Hoover appointed bald, courtly Irwin Boyle Laughlin, long-time diplomat, as Ambassador to Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Steel-Sired Diplomat | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

When Walter Hines Page was ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he told President Wilson, in recommending his then secretary for ministerhood: "I depend on him [Laughlin] more than all the rest of my staff together. I can hardly imagine a more careful or conscientious man." While Secretary of Commerce, President Hoover was impressed by Laughlin's ability when, as minister at Athens, he aided U. S. corporations in securing a munificent contract for waterworks construction. A man of affairs with long foreign experience, he precisely fits the Hoover pattern for diplomats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Steel-Sired Diplomat | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Confirmed the appointment of Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Roosevelt idea of his job, as approved by President Hoover: to be not merely Governor of Porto Rico but U. S. Ambassador to the Caribbean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Switzerland of America | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Elisabeth Morrow, returning with her Ambassador father to Mexico, said she would teach English to fifth graders in Mexico City's public schools. Her plan: to establish some day a school of her own for boys and girls in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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