Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Coolidge wrote a letter to King George. Said the letter, in part: "Great and good friend: "I have conferred the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon Mr. William Phillips, a distinguished citizen of the United States. . . . He is well informed of the desire of this government to cultivate to the fullest extent the friendship . . . between Your Majesty's Dominion of Canada and this country...
Sirs: To a relative of mine who happens be in Riga, Latvia I send frequently your delightful periodical. I herewith quote a criticism on the subject of an article that appeared in an issue several weeks ago [TIME, March 28] to the effect that the German Envoy to Latvia was making himself and his country popular by taking to the local customs and drinking beer with the natives: "TIME seems a little misinformed. Dr. Koester has been here since Latvia was acknowledged as such by the Germans-not three months ago as TIME has it. It is true...
...President accepted the resignation of Dr. J. Morton Howell of Dayton, Ohio, as Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Egypt. Owing to ill health of Mrs. Howell, Dr. Howell had twice before presented unaccepted resignations. He was born in Uniopolis, Ohio, in 1863; in 1921 became Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, has been Minister to Egypt since...
...delegations, composed (as to important delegates) respectively of 6 U. S. representatives and 16 Soviet Russians. Never before has the U. S. sent a "delegation" (as distinguished from mere "observers") to a conference called by the League; and not since the Lausanne Conference of 1923, when a Soviet envoy was murdered on Swiss soil, has "Red Russia" sent delegates of any kind into Switzerland...
...good friend: We have judged it expedient to confer the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon our trusty and well-beloved the Hon. Charles Vincent Massey, member of our Privy Council in Canada, with the especial object of representing in the United States of America the interests of our Dominion of Canada...