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...hostess of Vice President Curtis, by escorting her to the table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the House, who contests title of second lady of the land with Mrs. Gann, absented herself from the function. ¶Hearing from Tokyo that William Cameron Forbes of Boston would be persona grata as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, the President sent Mr. Forbes's appointment to the Senate. Also appointed last week: Ralph J. Totten of Nashville, Tenn., to be first U. S. Minister to the Union of South Africa...
...William Cameron Forbes '92 was nominated yesterday by President Hoover to be the American Ambassador to Japan. The appointment was transmitted to the Senate yesterday afternoon. Mr. Forbes will succeed to the post now filled by another Harvard alumnus, William Richards Castle Jr. '00. Castle had been the only American Ambassador in Tokio since Charles MacVeagh...
...Last week President Hoover selected William Cameron Forbes, 60, Boston merchant, polo enthusiast, bachelor grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be Ambassador to Japan. Before the appointment was officially announced Tokyo was asked if Mr. Forbes was persona grata. Two months ago Mr. Forbes led a Hoover investigation commission back from Haiti with recommendations which the President accepted as the basis for a new U. S. policy toward that black republic (TIME, April 7). Familiar enough is Mr. Forbes with the Pacific and its problems. President Roosevelt first sent him to the Philippines in 1904 as a member...
...name of W. Cameron Forbes '92 was yesterday sent to Tokio, Japan to determine whether or not he is acceptable for the position of United States ambassador. Forbes at present has not decided whether or not he will accept the post...
...Philadelphia last week, Cameron Beck, personnel director of the New York Stock Exchange, told Rotarians about leadership. During his speech he quoted a remark that soon the U. S. will face a shortage of 125,000 properly trained executives. Since then, Mr. Beck has been deluged with letters from unemployed gentlemen seeking to discover who needs a good executive...