Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. Berry, the Prime Minister's valet, and Inspectors Walter Dew and Victor White, his Scotland Yard attendants, may well have been surprised to hear the cannonading and bugle-blowing that went up as their chief, self-styled "missionary of peace," detrained in Washington to find a full-dress military reception. Green, Blue, Red. After visiting the British Embassy and pausing about 75 minutes, part of the motorcade reformed and the Prime Minister was taken to the President. He waited in the Green Room while Ambassador Howard went in to see the President in the Blue Room. Then...
...Monday evening came the President's great state dinner for his distinguished guest, now his friend. Seated at the mammoth horseshoe were 86 diners. Vice President Curtis and his sister Mrs. Gann, the British Ambassador and Mrs. Howard, all Cabinet members and their wives, Prime Minister MacDonald's official party, mainstay Senators and their wives, were chief guests. Notably absent were Speaker of the House and Mrs. Longworth, who were "in Cincinnati," thereby reviving still more gossip on the Longworth-Gann feud...
...While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President...
Before Shearer had finished his testimony, the hearing paused abruptly, "in deference to the visit of Prime Minister MacDonald." At subsequent hearings, thanks to Shearer, the Senators must receive a long parade of protesting bigwigs, probably beginning with Sir William Wiseman...
...Cambridge, Mass., Sophomore Lawrence B. Cohen Jr., president of Harvard's Socialist Club, was arrested for handing out pamphlets expressing a Socialist welcome to the Socialist Prime Minister. Excerpt: "Do not be deceived; MacDonald is not a public menace, but he is a Socialist, and Labor candidates said last spring, 'We are not concerned with patching up the rents in a bad system, but with transforming Capitalism into Socialism.' " Next day Socialist Cohen told newsgatherers he expected his father, said to be a wealthy Manhattan attorney, would disinherit him because "he has no sympathy with my statements...