Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Alabama to Albania Hugh S. Grant, onetime secretary to Senator Hugh La Fayette Black, was last week boosted by the President to U. S. Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary...
Importantly in London last week Ethiopia's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dr. Azaj Wargneh Martin, observed that J. P. Morgan is now in the British Isles and that it would be most gratifying if they could get together on a $10,000,000 loan. Next day an enormous limousine carried Ethiopia's envoy to Buckingham Palace and, in behalf of his sovereign Emperor Power of Trinity, the Conquering Lion of Judah, the King of Kings and the Elect of God, coffee-colored Minister Martin proceeded to decorate King George and Queen Mary...
...enthusiasm for King David as an ancestor, last week let himself be invested by Dr. Martin with the gold chain of the Ethiopian Order of King Solomon, and Queen Mary received the gold chain of the Order of Saba (or Sheba). In neither case did Ethiopia's envoy venture to put the gold chains around Their Majesties' necks, merely handed them over...
...pink into the thin, sallow cheeks of Squire Robert Worth Bingham, the Kentucky publisher (Louisville Courier-Journal) who, when first appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed the frailest of frail reeds on whom President Roosevelt had elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely sunshine...
...presented at Buckingham Palace by sweet-faced Mrs. Bingham. Last week the reason seemed clear and harmless to a degree. In the line of duty Their Majesties are prepared to receive almost any female against whom nothing is positively known and who is sponsored by her country's envoy. In the South good Squire Bingham has few cronies closer than Judge Shepard Bryan of Atlanta. In turn Judge Bryan's Titian-haired, freckle-faced daughter Mary, of Oglethorpe University, has few chums closer than that peaches & cream sub-deb pair, Louise Richardson and Anne Alston. Twice has Anne Alston been...