Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy's general board to discuss tonnage reduction with the President. Grizzled old officers were assured that their opinions would not be ignored. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who had interrupted his summer yachting to be present, went back to the State Department to call Ambassador Dawes in London on the trans-Atlantic telephone, to appraise him of what the White House had discussed...
...Atlantic City a score of sculptors and architects journeyed hopefully with their models which they set around the sun parlor of the Ambassador Hotel. The executive council made inspections, heard explanations and descriptions. Plain men themselves, they were puzzled by the artistic conceptions of Labor placed before them. Cried President William Green: "I'm wearied of always seeing Labor pictured bearing a burden. Labor is free." Remarked another troubled councilman: "Some of these would be all right if the sculptor could be chained to the job to tell people what it's all about. But what could...
...Members of the Labor Party show a terrible disregard of the Sabbath," boomed Commissioner Archibald MacNeillage. "They delight in trampling it under foot. Remember that the American Ambassador, Mr. C. G. Dawes, was first received by our Labor Prime Minister on the Sabbath-day! So far as the world knows, the great interest of world peace has not been advanced one iota by that Sabbath-day meeting...
...twenty-first page of TIME, Aug. 5 there is a the reference to Ambassador Dawes as a lawyer. I would like to be corrected if I am mistaken, but I am under the impression that he is a banker, well known in Chicago financial circles...
...Scout Clifford Taylor, of Des Plaines, Ill., was cleaning fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...