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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, was compelled to remain temporarily in or near the capital because of rapid naval disarmament developments. He. longed to get away to the usual British summer embassy at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Mass. French Ambassador Paul Claudel was likewise unable to escape because of the necessity of negotiating a postponement of the French debt settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Exodus | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Silliest shot: a horrible painting of the late Lord Kitchener indicated as a suggestion for transmitting Kitchener's stencil "Carry on" to Actress Ralston after her attempted jump. Like many contemporary film people, Esther Ralston took her first part as a stage baby. She and her parents, May Howard and Henry Walter Ralston, were routed over vaudeville circuits as "The Ralston Family, Metropolitan Entertainers." She went to school in Washington and New York, was tutored during the busy seasons. When she first got in pictures she was a free lance, that is, she made pictures without a permanent contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...morning last week the telephone jangled in the office of Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah. The British Embassy was calling. Could Senator Borah see the British Ambassador? Yes-the next day. Punctual for his appointments. Sir Esme Howard arrived at the Senate Office building, found his way to room 139 without direction, was there long closeted with the senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unusual, Proper | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) Frank Billings Kellogg D.C.L. Alanson Bigelow Houghton LL.D. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to U. S LL.D. George Payne McLean, onetime (1911-29) U. S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D. Andrew William Mellon LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Most prominent of U. S. college graduates who did not attend their June college reunions was President Hoover. Another absentee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Among the most distinguished who did attend were Citizen Calvin Coolidge, who marched in the Amherst commencement parade last week, and Banker John Pierpoint Morgan who, last week, returned to Harvard for the 40th reunion of his class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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