Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador hustled to London, hustled to his desk at No. 4 Grosvenor Gardens, Mrs. Dawes and daughter Virginia sped to the Ambassadorial home in Prince's Gate (once J. Pierpont Morgan's), began unpacking furniture. Early the next day Mr. Dawes decked himself in a morning coat, clapped a silk hat on his head, hustled to Paddington Station, where British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson stood stiffly awaiting. Mr. Dawes grabbed his hand, said something to make him smile, hustled into a train for Windsor to present his credentials to the King. No predecessor had ever done this...
...meeting with Mr. MacDonald followed, at Forres on Moray Firth. Two days later the Ambassador was to speak before royalty at the Pilgrims Society dinner in London. The same day, the Prime Minister was to address the dour fisherfolk of nearby Lossiemouth, his birthplace. They agreed to have both speeches touch on all-important naval reduction, and issued a joint communiqué to the effect that their speeches, when delivered, should be regarded as the starting point of a new disarmament movement in which "other naval powers are expected to co-operate...
Meanwhile customs men hung on to $150,000 worth of diamonds set in platinum, taken from Mrs. Rella Factor on May 28. Once a Chicagoan, Mrs. Factor claimed, as the wife of a London stockbroker, to be a British subject...
While Washington newsgatherers have lounged in the Spring sun on the White House steps, cablegrams from London signed "Bell" have been passing, unknown to the loungers, into the executive offices. Had they known, the White House correspondents would probably have said scornfully: "Old Bell's at it again." But last week, when the Bell cablegrams were first publicly known about, it was too late to say that. It was official news that Ramsay MacDonald, England...
...With nothing more concrete to go on than the fact that Princess Ingrid was visiting England for a month, that Edward of Wales's 35th birthday was imminent, that he once said that he would marry when he was 35, matchmaking editors embroidered and elaborated the story. The London press decided that the engagement would be announced at an elaborate ball which was to be given for Princess Ingrid at the Swedish Legation...