Word: debuchi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held by many to be almost the "double" of his chief). Yet trickery of some sort might have been suspected one day last week when this amazing episode took place: The President was seen to leave his executive office, clad in his usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat and calm in full formal morning wear. Midshipmen from the Japanese warboats were reviewed on the south...
Governor's Day (July 13) was a sad day at Cafmp Ritchie, Md. Preparations for the parade were interrupted by word that Japanese Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi would attend. Formality demanded singing of the Japanese National Anthem. Distracted officers consulted frantic musicians. Relief came with news that Ambassador Debuchi could not attend after all. Relief was short. On parade, with Governor Ritchie present, 21 paraders were taken ill. Suspected: the liver at lunch...
Japanese Ambassador M. Katsuji Debuchi, a true diplomat striving always to comprehend and reflect U. S. life. Short, plump, all smiles, he prides himself on his easy colloquial English...
...Washington. Tennis was the most fashionable thing to watch in Washington last week. For tennis players there was a White House tea. For tennis play there were audiences which included Mrs. Hoover, Japanese Ambassador & Madame Katsuji Debuchi, Germany's elegant Ambassador Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Sweden's Wollmar Bostroem, China's Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Greece's Charalambos Simopoulos, U. S. Secretary of State & Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. William Mitchell, Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, Mrs. William M. Jardine, Mrs. Pierce Butler...
...England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down, come the Balkan and Latin-American diplomats...