Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the White House lawns one day last week swarmed hundreds of dentists, delegates to the American Dental Convention at Washington (see p. 18). Not to risk missing a handshaking appointment with the President, they had come early. In the White House, President Hoover was talking with Prime Minister MacDonald...
¶ At six o'clock Wednesday afternoon the President and the Prime Minister bade their official farewells. That evening, unofficially, they disported together at a stag dinner given by Secretary of State Stimson. Contrary to precedent is it for U. S. presidents to accept informal social invitations, but President...
¶ Later in the week the President, like millions of other U. S. stay-at-homes, fiddled with radio dials, inclined his ear to a loudspeaker. Not a word did he miss. He was listening to the now familiar voice of Prime Minister MacDonald speaking before stiff-shirted notables and...
When Walter Hines Page was ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he told President Wilson, in recommending his then secretary for ministerhood: "I depend on him [Laughlin] more than all the rest of my staff together. I can hardly imagine a more careful or conscientious man." While...
President Hoover vexed the convention of the American Dental Association at Washington last week by only greeting a few of them (see p. 13).* Also they were cross because they did not get the newspaper publicity which conventioneers expect. Partly that was not their fault. Prime Minister MacDonald's...