Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 Sir Esme came back, fetched James Ramsay MacDonald and the historic handshake of the trip took place. Mr. MacDonald introduced his daughter, apple-cheeked Ishbel. In the Red Room, Mrs. Hoover was waiting. President Hoover took his callers to her. Mrs. Hoover, Ishbel and Lady Isabella Howard at once began...
Some men lately pictured in TIME: Sweden's Trygger, J. J. Tunney, Edwin Foster Lowry, Henry Byron Warner, Sir John Chancellor, Kentucky's Rev. Settle, Gus Orvel Nations, Felix Warburg, Crown Prince Umberto, Joseph Denis Murphy, Jimmy Johnston. Alfonso of Spain, Milwaukee's Younggreen...
...Sir William Wiseman "head of the British Secret Service in the U. S., the chief British spy in America, now associated with Otto Hermann Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [New York bankers] was the author of an amazing secret document sent to David Lloyd George after the War. The document was saturated with hostility toward the U. S. and proposed a 'United States of Europe,' " asserted Shearer...
...document is a clumsy, absurd forgery," wired Sir William from New York...
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...