Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Possibly to be Secretary of Navy or War, Mr. Hoover's good friend Hugh Gibson, now Ambassador to Belgium, who began life in California. Also powerfully pondered were the great ambassadorships. Leading candidate for something good, possibly London: handsome, able Henry Prather Fletcher who escorted the Hoovers to and around and back from South America, and who, like Mr. Gibson, is a distinguished diplomatic career...
...London Daily News scooped, last week, the news that "the King's hair has turned pure white...
Opened in London, last week, but not yet patronized by the Royal Family, was a "Public Inhalatorium." Poor persons with colds may pay tuppence (4¢) to sit in a large chamber inhaling beneficial gases. Individuals of the middle classes will doubtless choose to pay two shillings (48¢) for a booth in which they may sniff privately...
...certain kind of news is called "American." Admittedly the foremost "American" editor in London is Mr. Ralph D. ("Blum") Blumenfeld of the London Daily Express. Operated by one Dave Blumenfeld, son of Ralph, is the London Feature Service. Last week this enterprising bureau cabled to the U. S. a story "not to be reproduced in the British Isles." Apparently Canadians were considered sufficiently "American" to enjoy what followed...
Died. Emil Fuchs,* 62, famed Austrian painter, sculptor and etcher of monarchs and geniuses; by suicide in his Manhattan studio. Artistic conqueror of four cities: Berlin, Rome, London, New York, he sculpted Wilhelm Hohenzollern; painted King Edward VII, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Elbert H. Gary; designed the King Edward VII postage stamp of the British Empire. Recently he acquired internal cancer. He left a note to his sister: "I am already a burden to myself and my surroundings...