Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Coolidge. moved about Washington in a voluminous coonskin coat, and while Mrs. Coolidge did final wrappings and adjustments (there were five White House Christmas trees to trim), the President worked away in his office. Late in the afternoon he began dictating the speech he will deliver to the Pan-American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button...
...Ambassador Judah is financially equipped to perform better than many a diplomat. He inherited substantially from his father, and Mrs. Judah was Dorothy Patterson of the National Cash Register family (Dayton, Ohio). The Judahs will have a month or so to get settled in Havana. Then will come the pan-American conference, at which the new ambassador will be, ex officio, a member of the U. S. delegation and host of his colleagues, the latter perhaps including President Coolidge...
What the Austrian Chancellor's attitude was to this proposal was not divulged, but an idea of it may be gleaned from the rumor, emanating from official circles, that Count Mensdorff-Pouilly will soon resign and be replaced by a prominent Pan-German, i. e., one who favors the anschluss...
...appeal suit brought by the Mexican Petroleum Co. (a subsidiary of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co., controlled by the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana) to restrain the Mexican Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor from canceling the oil drilling permits of the company (which the ministry had already done), the Supreme Court of Mexico passed judgment in favor of the U. S. concern...
...President Coolidge named Charles Evans Hughes to be head of the U. S. delegation at the Pan-American Congress in Havana, Cuba, in January. Critics of Secretary of State Kellogg's record on Latin-American relations chose to regard the distinguished personnel of this delegation as evidence that President Coolidge is extraordinarily concerned about Pan-American amity. Other observers connected President Coolidge's concern rather with such unfriendly ganda as that reported by Ambassador-to-Peru Poindexter (see Col. 2), than with Secretary Kellogg. The Hughes-headed delegation will be composed of: Ambassador-to-Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador...