Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City, Mo.. Charles M. Hofman and his wife called upon Mr. and Mrs. John G. Bennett, played argumentative bridge. Toward the end of the game Mr. Bennett bid a spade, Mrs. Bennett raised him to four spades, showed a "rather good hand." When he failed to make the bid. Mrs. Bennett called her husband a "bum bridge player," whereupon he leaned across the table, slapped her face. She excused herself from the room, rummaged in a trunk for a revolver, returned and shot him dead...
...Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who ranks as a moderate liberal. Rumors that John Pierpont Morgan, Senior Warden of St. John's, Locust Valley, L. I., heavy contributor to the diocese of New York, is to pay the publication costs are unfounded. What Mr. Morgan will pay for is a limited edition, on heavy paper, large type, handset, to be distributed to Bishops and deputies to the General Convention...
...customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of acceptability was quite ideally met. Mr. Guggenheim is well acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more experienced professional diplomat had received...
...situation which had held up Mr. Guggenheim's confirmation while Secretary of State Stimson hurriedly consulted with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resulted partly from an anti-Machado resolution received by the Senate and partly from a series of suits for damages brought against the Cuban government by U. S. citizens. High were the crimes and misdemeanors of "El Gallo" as recited by the aggrieved petitioners. He had violated the Cuban constitution. He had illegally manipulated the rich national lottery. His administration had been guilty of extravagance, fraud, political coercion, assassination. Furthermore, he had trampled upon the rights...
...rider on the Army appropriation act of 1901. It defined the terms under which Cuba might have its liberty, subject to intervention by the U. S. if and when the terms were violated. It was the possibility of Platt Amendment intervention which last fortnight was bothering "El Gallo." Doubtless Mr. Guggenheim, too, perused the Platti-tudes with close attention. In the end, however, the Senate decided that Cuban affairs, though vexed, were not critical. The situation called for the ability and popularity of a Harry Guggenheim, did not call for the long professional training of, for instance, a Hugh Gibson...