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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good diplomat must always be diplomatic. Recently Rt. Hon. Sir Esme William Howard, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, Privy Councillor Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Ambassador to the U. S. from the Court of St. James's, proved himself a good diplomat when one James T. Carter, Lynchburg (Va.) lumberman, wrote him a letter demanding that Sir Esme "join hands with the U. S." by relinquishing the privilege of diplomatic liquor importations. The British Ambassador replied (via his private secretary) that he would willingly do so, provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dry Diplomacy | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...staring over the top of her perambulator. Stanley Baldwin bowed solemnly to "P'incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When he emerged, Prime Minister Baldwin no longer, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., Princess Elizabeth was still being trundled in the driveway. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., drove away. The rest of the week was Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Labor's Week | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Hon. James Ramsay MacDonald Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Labor's Week | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Hon. James Henry Thomas Lord Privy Seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Labor's Week | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Gerson is no great loss to the race. But in the last act, prisoned in the lacquered mansion of the dread Chang Kai Chang, the Hon. Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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