Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover bade farewell to Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, U. S. delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Commission on Armament Limitation. Final presidential instructions: be careful...
...French cruiser Tourville steamed westward across the Atlantic last week bearing home the body of Myron Timothy Herrick, late U. S. Ambassador to France. Manhattan prepared to receive it with solemn honors, in which France's dead Foch was to share. In Ohio waited a grave...
...Kellogg denied that he would take a diplomatic post after four years as Secretary of State. A special act of Congress would be necessary to make General Pershing an Ambassador for the statutes now prohibiting a military man, active or retired, to enter the diplomatic service. The Sacco-Vanzetti case is held to militate against the chances which onetime Governor Fuller of Massachusetts has of going to Paris where the "radical" tide often runs strong...
...flowers, no music, no women-such was the Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by the fact that the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch ordered "No flowers!" (TIME, April 1), Mr. Herrick said when his own death drew nigh, "I also want no flowers...
...course some well-meaning person smuggled a single bunch of violets onto the bier, last week, and they were not disturbed. But there was no music in the Embassy. And there were only, two women-Mme. Salambier, long the Ambassador's social secretary, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick. The other 400 persons who jammed to suffocation the largest room in the Embassy were all men, clad in formal mourning...