Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the reasoning perceived last week behind President Coolidge's appointment of Col. Noble Brandon Judah, Chicago lawyer, soldier, bank director, to the Cuban post. Like the selection of Morgan-partner Dwight Whitney Morrow for the recent vacancy in Mexico, Mr. Judah's selection, over the heads of State Department "career men," was an effort to discover and apply special aptitude for a special necessity...
Then U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis made a speech. Excerpts...
...evidence that President Coolidge is extraordinarily concerned about Pan-American amity. Other observers connected President Coolidge's concern rather with such unfriendly ganda as that reported by Ambassador-to-Peru Poindexter (see Col. 2), than with Secretary Kellogg. The Hughes-headed delegation will be composed of: Ambassador-to-Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador-to-Italy Henry P. Fletcher, onetime (1915-27) Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Lawyers Morgan J O'Brien of Manhattan, and James Brown Scott of Washington, D. C., President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, Director-General of the Pan-American Union Leo S. Rowe. Whoever...
With high pomp and circumstance, a squad of Mexican officials and a squadron of mounted guards called at the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City for Ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary Dwight Whitney Morrow. Clattering back through the streets, the cavalcade conducted Mr. Morrow to the presidential palace. On the stroke of noon, President Plutarco Elias Calles entered the ambassador's salon to receive Mr. Morrow's credentials, hear his speech and make reply. By coincidence, each spoke exactly 170 words, Mr. Morrow in English, President Calles in Spanish. President Calles asked Mr. Morrow to sit down...
...hearts, Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who so loves the Navy that he dared accuse it of large faults, received a shock. He and most other people had supposed the recent "Magruder Incident" was closed (TIME, Oct. 10). Now came a curt telegram from Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, detaching Admiral Magruder from his post at the Philadelphia Navy Yard...