Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon after his retirement, Dr. Eliot was asked by President Taft to go as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. The press bubbled with enthusiasm. "A typical citizen," people said, "our first citizen." Dr. Eliot excused himself, but sailed around the world two years later as envoy of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...Marouene, an outpost north of Targuist, spied a cloud of dust which resolved itself into eight mounted men. Two were French officers, four were native riflemen. In their midst rode two portly figures in loose Riffian garments. One was the Sherif Hamedou Quedzani, chief of the Sanadas tribe, the envoy through whom the final details of submission had been negotiated. The second Riffian, a plump but well knit man with a shrewd impassive face and hard luminous eyes, was of course Mohammed ben Abd-El-Krim...
...title is only the last on an imposing list: Bencher of the Middle Temple (1904); Member of Parliament from Reading (1904-13); Knight (1910); Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21); Baron (1914); President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. (1915); Viscount Reading (1916); Special Envoy to the U. S. (1917); Viscount Erleigh and Earl of Reading (1917); High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. (1918); Viceroy and Governor General of India (1921-26) (TIME, April...
...that Captain Canning should be fully heard and every effort made to put an end to the expensive and unpopular war which France is waging in Morocco (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante). Meanwhile the Foreign Office coquetted with the idea of giving official cognizance to a purely self-styled envoy...
...though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying out a series of confidential missions vital to the Allies...