Word: british-american
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...Dictator-President Leguía has taken it upon himself to appoint a U. S. Methodist Episcopal medical missionary, Dr. Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American Hospital at Lima, Peruvian capital, and that he has frequently had occasion to attend professionally both the indomitable Señor Leguía and numerous members of his militant Administration...
...Department of State has confirmed the reported appointment of Roscoe Pound Hon 20, Dean of the Law School, to the British-American Board of Arbitration...
...lawyer of St. Paul, native of Duluth, Harvard '97, to be Assistant Secretary of State, to succeed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, appointed Minister to China (TIME, Apr. 13). During the War, Mr. Olds represented the American Red Cross in Europe. He was head of the Red Cross for about three years. At present, he is the American Member of the British-American Joint Arbitration Tribunal created by treaty in 1910, and serving in London. What of it? Nothing, but he is the second St. Paul man to receive a major appointment in about two weeks. The other was William...
...Hands across the sea" and the "British-American brotherbood," long since relegated to after-dinner speeches, are truisms which have suffered considerable damage through over-repetition. But the mere triteness of these phrases does not blind to their fundamental truth, when, as today, news comes of the continued athletic rapprochement of Oxford, and Harvard...
...present the bulk of cigarette manufacturing is done by three interests in the order named: British-American Tobacco Co., Nanyang Brothers, the Tobacco Products Export Co. The second named concern represents Chinese capital, the other two British and American. About 80% of the tobacco used by Chinese cigarette factories is grown...