Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. John Van Antwerp Mac-Murray, U.S. Minister to China since 1925, to take a position at Johns Hopkins University. More than 20 years a diplomat, he has served at Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Peking. He was an expert Far Eastern advisor to the U. S. delegation at the Washington Disarmament Conference (1921-22). For a time (1924) he served as Assistant Secretary of State...
...years later he resigned as secretary of the company to embrace a diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden...
...President Hoover accepted the resignation, long-since proffered, of Ogden H. Hammond, President of Hoboken Terminal Co., Ambassador to Spain. Urged by influential Senator Reed of Pennsylvania as the successor: Irwin Boyle Laughlin of Pittsburgh, career diplomat (Athens. Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London), elder brother of Pittsburgh's George McCully Laughlin Jr. (Jones & Laughlin, steel...
Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels. They and all Siam, especially Royal Bangkok, mourned the death of a young medical interne at the American Mission Hospital. No ordinary student he, but a superlatively intelligent one, for he came from a superlatively intelligent house and was none other than Somdet Chao Fa (Prince) Mahidol Adulyadej, brother of His Majesty the King of Siam, heir presumptive to the throne of Siam, Harvard graduate, onetime M. I. T. student...
...Sibours. A terrific Burmese storm last week discomfited Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife, daughter of London's department store tycoon, Harry Gordon Selfridge. The de Sibours are flying around the world. After landing at Moulmein, near Rangoon, the couple took off in frisky weather, attained Bangkok, Siam...