Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghton is in accordance with the usual type of man appointed to the Court of St.James's. He was born in Cambridge, Mass. He was educated at Harvard. He is wealthy enough not to mind the fact that his salary of $17,500 will, at London, be only a drop in the bucket of his expenses. On the other hand, he is not a literary man, nor is he a publisher, a politician, an editor, a lawyer-but a manufacturer...
...Congressman from New York. President Harding selected him for the job of reopening intercourse with Germany. He did so, and succeeded in winning the goodwill of the Germans to a marked degree. Knowing at first hand the aspects of Europe's great problems, including reparations, he goes to London with a better schooling than many men who have been sent there before...
Berlin. The President, in plugging up the vacancy made by the withdrawal of Mr. Kellogg from London, thereby made another vacancy in Berlin. Again the aspirants began to count their chances...
This action was hailed abroad. Quoth the London Times...
...just this thought-so pleasing to the London Times, which so upped Senator Hiram Johnson and some of his Republican colleagues. Could it be, after all, that Mr. Coolidge was abandoning the rallying cry of his party since 1921, the cry of "No entanglements...