Word: davila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would other Embassies follow the British and go Dry? It seemed unlikely, though guests recalled that Jose de Horta Machado da Franca, Visconde d'Alte, the Portuguese Minister, was no server of "intoxicating beverages" at his entertainments, and that Chilean Ambassador Carlos Davila, after giving a dry dinner to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, recently had queried his Government on the wisdom of cutting off its embassy's liquor supply, not to accord with U. S. Prohibition, but with a new temperance movement in Chile...
Carlos Guillermo Davila, Chilean Ambassador to U. S LL.D...
...Gann, no talker in Society, heard those about him discuss the Junoesque lady in a silver lace dress seated so grandly at the right hand of the diminutive Ambassador Davila at one end of the table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph...
...Rumanian statesman participated in the signing of the protocol; he delivered an effusion to the effect that Eastern Europe thus became the only area where the Kellogg pact was in force last week,* and finally M. Davila joined all present in a champagne toast-Crimean champagne...
...next long journey to be made by Rumania's Davila will be to Washington, D. C., where he is slated to replace M. George Cretziano as Rumanian Minister...