Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of June 12, does not appear to be a Who's Who in merrie England should not give you concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence of his letter that as butler or doorman of the exclusive Authors Club of London he was tidying up the library and, after the members had departed, when he found TIME unconsumed in the fire place, sat himself down at the writing table and abused the stationery reserved for authors. His pleasant and gentlemanly use of the epithet "Yanks" further bears out my theory...
...called exchange. Opportunity for correction is there given. "Thank You" saves telephone users in the aggregate, thousands of hours annually. We Americans value highly our "Time". In your remarks about hand telephones, do you infer backwardness in telephone development here? You forget that your Cleveland operator can get you London in a jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone. Are we backward with Telephoto, Television and all? Since telephone development in America is indisputably far ahead, is it not safe to presume that good and sufficient scientific reasons exist for our present types of telephones? Stationary...
...occupying a secretarial post in the U. S. Embassy at Vienna. From 1884 to 1893 he was a Secretary at the Court of St. James's. Then came four years of private life (coinciding with the Democratic Cleveland Administration). In 1897 President McKinley sent him back to London where he remained till 1905, in which year President Roosevelt appointed him Ambassador to Italy. From 1907 to 1909 he was Ambassador to France...
President Roosevelt called him "the most useful member of the diplomatic service." Joseph H. Choate, onetime (1899-1905) U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's said (in 1910) that Mr. White (who was a member of the U. S. secretarial staff in London during the regime of five ambassadors?Phelps, Lincoln, Bayard, Hay, Choate) "conducted a school of diplomacy at London." "He took fresh, green Ambassadors and put them to school," said Mr. Choate. "Hardly a question that could arise did not arise under the five Ambassadors under whom he served. You can imagine, with Harry White...
...workers stormed and smashed the apparatus. Meanwhile labor organizations had declared a general strike, thus paralyzing communication. Telegraphs and telephones were silent. Trains, Danube steamers and even the German-owned air service were stopped. For 48 hours news from Vienna came only in the form of smuggled rumors. At London it was announced that a "Red Dictatorship" had been set up in Austria...