Word: hani
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Baron Matsui, Japanese Foreign Minister, announced that "smiling" Hani-hara, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., would return to Tokyo to explain to the Government the situation caused by President Coolidge's signing of the Johnson Immigration Bill (TIME, June 2, IMMIGRATION). Although the Foreign Minister stated that the Ambassador was not being recalled, informed circles thought his resignation was merely a question of time...
...Frank A. Vanderlip decided to give a Japanese garden party at Beechwood, Scarborough-on-the- Hudson, for the benefit of Tsuda College, destroyed by the Japanese earthquake. They wanted to invite Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani-hara. So they martialed a flock of carrier pigeons and the 102nd Aviation Squadron of the National Guard at Staten Island, to deliver a message to each of these distinguished diplomats. Lieutenant J. Kendrick, of the Aviation Squadron, was equipped with a Curtiss plane-familiarly known as a "Jenny," powered with a 100-horsepower engine and capable of 70 to 75 miles an hour...