Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, most exciting of all, Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, chair-man of the U. S. Delegation to the League of Nations preparatory Arms Conference at Geneva, delivered at Geneva the Hoover formula for reduction (not limitation) of naval armaments. How would the Powers take to his plan? Carefully, secretly President Hoover had planted his armament reduction idea in Chief Delegate Gibson's mind during quiet White House evenings a month ago, when the Powers despaired of success at the forthcoming conference...
Justice Stone played guard on Amherst football teams when slender, rusty-haired Calvin Coolidge was there at college, a class behind. A powerful man of 200 lb., he knocked the wind out of President Hoover in one of the medicine-ball games last month. For two days little Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium (see p. 21), bore a red mark on his nose after attempting to catch one of Justice Stone's mighty throws. The Stone roughness was sufficient to cause protests to the President; reminders that, after...
...President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as follows: "It has recently been my privilege to discuss the general problem of disarmament at considerable length with President Hoover. I am in a position to realize, perhaps as well as anyone, how earnestly he feels that the pact for the renunciation of war opens for us an unprecedented opportunity for advancing...
Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, representing President Herbert Clark Hoover, smiled and said nothing. Baron Cushendun of Great Britain frowned in silence. Outside the Commission room they both expressed themselves to correspondents in scathing terms, though "not for publication." The plan was not worthy of criticism or consideration, they indicated, because they believed it had been "offered in bad faith." They did not offer any alternative plan, perhaps because the Commission long ago became almost inextricably entangled in its so-called Draft Convention for a Disarmament Conference (TIME, April...
...Beecher 1M, of Wichita, Kan.; L. S. Davis 3M, of Dallas, Tex.; C. W. Steele 2M, of Chillicothe, Mo.; De Lamar Student Research Fellowships. Champ Lyons 2M, of Mobile, Ala., and L. S. Pilcher, 2d, 3M, of Montclair, N. J.; James Jackson Cabot Fellowships. Hugh Montgomery 3M, of Woods Hole; George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial Fellowship. W. P. Reed 3M, of Milwaukee, Wis.; John Ware Memorial Fellowship. E. R. Lehnherr...