Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceedings of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission* at Geneva (TIME, May 24) got under way last week with the election to its presidency of Jonkheer J. Loudon, onetime Foreign Minister of the Netherlands. Interest at once centered upon the pronouncements of Hugh Simpson Gibson, representing the U. S., and Count von Bernstorff, head of the German delegation?the former grave and earnest, the latter in festive mood...
Leaders. Since the Conference is to be concerned chiefly with hard work, the delegates are nearly all seasoned diplomats with a lifetime of experience in international dealings. The U. S. delegate, Mr. Hugh Simpson Gibson, began his diplomatic career as a secretary to the U. S. legation at Tegucigalpa in 1908. He progressed steadily through increasingly responsible posts at Honduras, Havana, Santo Domingo, Brussels, London and Paris, until he was appointed U. S. Minister to Poland (1919-24) and finally to Switzerland, his present post. Paradoxically, the German delegate is Count von Bernstorff, famed as the pre-war German Ambassador...
Chief Judge at Finish: William F. Garcelon, Harvard. Judges at Finish: W. J. Bingham '16, Rupert B. Thomas, Princeton; Louis C. Madeira, Pennsylvania; John T. Kilpatrick, Yale; William C. Prout, Brown; J. T. Mahoney, C.C. N. Y. Starters: John J. McHugh, P. S. A. L. N. Y., Hugh C. McGrath, Boston. Chief Timer. Mortimer Bishop, New York University, Timers: Charles J. Dieges, N. Y. A. C., George L. Moylan, Harvard; Charles A. S. Hatfield, Fordham; William A. Schick '05, Harvard...
Married. Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Sr., widow of one of the two Dodge brothers who founded the famed auto manufactory of that name; to one Hugh Dillman, actor, divorced husband of famed actress, Marjorie Rambeau, at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Dodge is asserted to have recently purchased for $3,000,000 the Joshua S. Cosden estate at Palm Beach, together with its furnishings, works of art, etc., valued at $1,000,000. At the wedding was Edward Townsend Stotesbury, famed Philadelphia capitalist...
...ranks men of prominence, men of ability and men with zeal to make a genuine effort for crime prevention. How well it has succeeded its roster shows: Herbert S. Hadley, former Governor of Missouri and onetime candidate for Vice President; Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Charles E. Hughes, recent Secretary of State; Ethel Roosevelt Derby, daughter of the late President; Franklin D. Roosevelt, recent candidate for Vice President; Dr. E. A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Hugh Frayne of the American Federation of Labor; ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois; Charles H. Sabin...