Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting last night of the Student Council, five men were nominated the Senior class for the two open positions on the Council. The five men nominated are Harrison Gardner '24 of Boston, Lewis Gordon '24 of Gloucester, Kenneth Noyes Hill '24 of West Roxbury Clay Harvey Hollister Jr. '24 of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Charlton MacVeagh '24 of Washington, D. C. Two men will be elected probably by postal ballot next Monday...
...Retirements. Colonel Harvey is expected to sail for this country in November. His resignation will become effective on Jan. 1. The only comments that he made on the official announcement of his resignation were: "I cannot say anything whatever about it" and "I am not at all interested in the statement...
...last consideration may be assumed to weigh heavily. Their salaries are $17,500 a .year. The expenses of Colonel Harvey during his time at London have been well over $100,000 in excess of his salary. Mr. Child's expenses have doubtless been somewhat less, but burdensome, nevertheless...
...retirement of Messrs. Harvey and Child leaves vacancies in two major ambassadorial posts. In their order of importance the leading embassies are usually rated as London, Paris, Tokyo, Rome. The post at London as well as being the most important has also the greatest historical interest, for it has been occupied by James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Washington Irving, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and, in more recent years, by Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas F. Bayard, John Hay, Joseph H. Choate, Whitelaw Reid, Walter Hines Page, John W. Davis. Now a successor to these...
Another qualification has usually been an extensive record of party service. Colonel Harvey helped to engineer the coup by which Mr. Harding was nominated at the Republican Convention in 1920. It was in his rooms in Chicago, hot and filled with tobacco smoke, that at three a. m. on a June morning the agreement was made which produced the nomination. Similarly Ambassador Child spent the Summer of 1920 in Marion editing Senator Harding's speeches. Similar services were rendered by Myron T. Herrick, Ambassador to France, and by Charles B. Warren, Ambassador (since resigned) to Tokyo. President Coolidge...