Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brass band of the steamship Aquitania played The Star Spangled Banner, and Colonel George Harvey, retiring Ambassador to Grea Britain, walked down the gangplank onto Manhattan Island. He said a good word for Secretary Hughes' offer to participate in a solution of the reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...
Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota, naturally does not approve the choice of Frank B. Kellogg, one of his Republican opponents, to be Ambassador to Britain. A reporter suggested to Magnus that Mr. Kellogg, like Colonel Harvey, might take to silk knee breeches, " Magnavox " roared: "Those black pants on Frank Kellogg would sure be a sight for sore eyes...
...November issue, Professor Hart mentions the following items in his survey of the history of the U. S. (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) : Retirement of General Sawyer and Ambassadors Harvey and Child; General Wood's troubles in the Philippines; the financial difficulties of Governor McCray of Indiana; the Klan in Oklahoma; the Berkeley, Cal., fire; Mayor Hylan's illness; Magnus Johnson's speeches; the arrival of Lloyd George on American soil; the application for permission to disinter the body of James Oglethorpe; the farmers' distress; the annual convention of the A. F. of L.; Governor Pinchot...
...ambassador's position, like the President's, become more difficult year by year. He is considered virtually public property. Mr. Harvey may not have been born a diplomat, but that does not excuse be criticism which he received for the wrinkled lapels of his dinner-coat, or the unbecoming appearance of his bone-rimmed spectacles. By all means the foreign minister should do his almost to represent his country creditably: but even he should be pardoned for an occasional slip...
...College of Surgeons of Ireland, was a special guest. 4) Dr. "Will" Mayo (TIME, May 19) was a prominent figure, as usual. He made an address summarizing surgical progress. 5) Dr. Albert J. Ochsner, of the University of Illinois and Augustana Hospital, Chicago, was installed at President, succeeding Dr. Harvey Gushing, Boston...