Word: next
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week the telephone jangled in the office of Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah. The British Embassy was calling. Could Senator Borah see the British Ambassador? Yes-the next day. Punctual for his appointments. Sir Esme Howard arrived at the Senate Office building, found his way to room 139 without direction, was there long closeted with the senators...
...have to plead guilty to the accumulation of my years. . . . When I entered the Senate I stated correctly the date of my birth; I did not hide it as, perhaps, some have done; I have never changed it in the records and so I find that this is the next to the last day of the eighty-fifth year of life...
...Congress adjourned, emptied Washington, gave white invitees a good excuse to decline. In the crowd of 3,000 only a dozen white faces appeared, of which only one, that of Illinois Representative Richard Yates, belonged to a House colleague. Congressman De Priest announced that he would give another musicale next winter to test the sincerity of his Republican friendships on the race issue...
...Hotel Victoria found Lord Desborough at the head of the speakers' table surrounded by the greatest diplomatic personages in London. At Yeoman Desborough's right in the seat of honor was Charles Gates Dawes, the newly-arrived U. S. Ambassador. At his left was Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. Next to Mr. Dawes was plantagenet-beaked Sir Austen Chamberlain, the outgone Foreign Secretary, and beyond him Sir Austen's good friend, French Ambassador Monsieur de Fleurian. Also at the speakers' table were the Ambassadors of Germany, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, and the Italian Charge d'Affaires, Count Ruggeri...
...Next Step. The Dawes and MacDonald speeches evoked pages of polite applause from the world press. What the next steps would be remained vague. Ramsay MacDonald flew down from Scotland to London, said "Flying is the only way to travel," but announced no further disarmament plans. His proposed visit to the U. S.? loudly protested by Tories as undignified toadying to a foreign country? disappeared for the time being into a mist of postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick...