Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This drew from Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain a brisk defense of his ministry culminating in the words: "For the British Government war with the United States is unthinkable and the prospect of war with the United States or preparation for war with the United States never has been and never will be the basis of our policy in anything...
...furious waxed the German protest that the British Foreign Office finally informed the British Board of Film Censors that the licensing and release of Dawn would be "most objectionable." While the Board was expected to follow this hint, British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain thought it necessary to clarify his personal views in an announcement made by his private secretary...
Reported Engaged. Michael Arlen, whose name used to be Dikran Kuyumjian, famed Mayfair novelist, dramatist, popularizer of green hats; to Countess Atlanta Mercati, daughter of Count Alexander Mercati, onetime Lord Chamberlain to a King of Greece...
...capitals of Europe" on his present tour, and may possibly extend it by a brief trip to the U. S. When an English correspondent asked, "Is Your Majesty a friend of Great Britain?" shrewd Amir Amanullah replied: "I will answer that question after I have spoken to Sir Austen Chamberlain" (British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). Attached to the royal Afghan suite, last week, were several businesslike, efficient secretaries who carried data upon the many, varied and picturesque opportunities which exist in Afghanistan for the profitable investment of occidental capital...
Impressed by the way he conducted himself last summer in Europe, the Mardi Gras Committee of New Orleans last week announced that it had invited glib, dapper Mayor James John Walker of New York to be Lord High Chamberlain of its revels next month. Mayor Walker was reported trying to contrive to accept...