Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates. In the presidential race the Grand Revolutionary Party of President Emilio Portes Gil is running scarfaced, jut-lipped Pascual Ortiz Rubio, one-time Ambassador to Brazil, a party regular picked by Mexico's most potent political boss, General Plutarco Elias Calles who put down the revolution of last spring (TIME, March 4 to June 3) and is now being overhauled by doctors at Paris...
About to leave for Cuba as U. S. Ambassador, Harry Frank Guggenheim went and had a long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund...
...Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium, arrived in Manhattan, was greeted by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young. She went to stay with her longtime friend...
Born. To Secretary & Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Moffat of the U. S. Legation at Berne, Switzerland; a daughter, Edith Alice Pierrepont. Mrs. Moffat is the daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. ambassador to Turkey...
...appearance of her father's middle-aged friend Lord Arnold with the cry, "Oh, look at the House of Lords!" Promptly and absurdly they were rumored engaged. Baron Arnold, British Paymaster General, is accompanying the MacDonald party at his own expense, has been mooted as the next British Ambassador at Washington-suspected of being a "Colonel House." Intensely embarrassed, especially by reports that newspapers in his home city, Manchester, were whooping the story, Baron Arnold said: "I wish to deny this as emphatically as I can without being discourteous to Miss MacDonald." Ishbel, soberly: "I never pay any attentions...