Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hungarian Minister Count Laszlo Szechenyi, to present friends. British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard, to present friends...
...solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926), diplomat. He was the friend and aid of four U. S. Presidents. For Grover Cleveland he went to Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile he had served as Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor. President Roosevelt appointed him a U. S. member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1902 and again in 1908; Woodrow Wilson repeated the appointment...
President Coolidge was there. So were Mrs. Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns, the British Ambassador & Lady Isabella Howard, the Italian Ambassador & Nobil Donna...
...Scripps-Howard papers claimed to have won additional readers through their handling of the Snyder-Gray murder, and the Hearst papers by their treatment of the Peaches Browning case. Nine-tenths of the putrid detail and the revolting accounts of the Snyder-Gray murder and the overtures of the amorous Browning ought never to have been put in public print...