Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They will find, however, that the United States is not as wholly Anglo-Saxon as Col. Harvey may have indicated. Many Americans cling to their British ancestry with increasing pride, but an element of growing numbers has nothing in common with the British but their language. The Germans, Italians, Jews and Slavic peoples who have been immigrating in steady streams, have no national cordiality for England; and these transplanted colonies have failed to accept the prevailing traditions and friendships,--which are essentially British. Anglo-American kinship, once close, has become more and more remote...
Rumors persist that Ambassador Harvey will shortly resign his post as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Nothing definite is known, except that the report seems to rely for its authenticity upon a statement made by an American Embassy official that Mr. Harvey wished to stay in America at the time of the Baldwin debt negotiations; and the Ambassador's preamble to his now famous Pilgrim speech in London, when he said: " I am utterly destitute of the traditional weapons of diplomacy...
...taken the post of Foreign Minister as penalty. (P. 13.) An endeavor to stimulate undergraduate thought and learning in spite of the curriculum. (P. 19.) Foch, Marshal of Poland. (P. 23.) More pay for the men who make steel and cloth. (P. 6.) Ambassadorial homesickness as exhibited by Mr. Harvey. (P. 9.) Monte San Nicholas-eternal tribute to the dead. (P. 15.) Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, eager to join with Einstein in debate. (P. 21.) Mr. Taft's reputation, deemed "spotless" even by sensational publishers. (P. 24.) Stambuliski-hoisting communism by its own petard. (P. 12.) Justice Holmes...
Hall Caine, British novelist: "Harvey Fly, an American, is suing me for $5,000 as commission on the sale of the film rights of The Master of Man to the Goldwyn Co. The sale price was $50,000 and he contends that $5,000 is a fair commission...
...Harvey's investigation of the farmer-vote in Norfolk while he keeps half an eye on Iowa...