Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, last week formally accepting the U. S. Senate seat to which he will return from the London naval conference (TIME, Dec. 9). The day before, 50 potent New Jersey Republicans had met at Orange, formed the "Morrow-for-President-in-1936 Club." Meanwhile the New York Telegram in a front page story had given a headline nomination to New York's Owen D. Young as Candidate Morrow's 1936 Democratic opponent...
...took the water, 42 naval officers were graduated from the Navy's special submarine school at New London, Conn., to help man this growing arm of national defense...
These naval activities, of course, in no wise reduced the determination of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates to the London Naval Conference to talk Japan's delegates out of their demands for large submarine tonnage. With nice new bags and trunks ceremoniously packed by his wife who remained behind in Tokyo, onetime Japanese Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki had brought his delegation to Washington for a brief diplomatic visit on the way to London. To his suburban home, Woodley, Statesman Stimson invited Delegates Wakatsuki and Takarabe, there with U. S. Delegate Morrow, discussed naval matters...
...years ago Ivy Chamberlain, handsome, Junoesque wife of then Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, had an idea for a great Italian Art exhibition to be held in London. She formed a committee on which were art wise Sir Joseph Duveen, Roger Fry, Viscount Lascelles (Princess Mary's husband), Sir William Llewellyn. They wrote a letter to Premier Mussolini who became interested, put Dr. Modigliani in charge of a committee...
...consignment from Italy was the last to arrive in London. From the Limehouse dock four police manned vans carried the crates through guarded streets to Burlington House, Piccadilly, copied after an Italian palace and long the seat of the Royal Academy...