Word: sirs
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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...
...made the conference unusual was that it apparently violated an ancient custom that all diplomatic matters be conducted by foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make...
Senator Borah and Sir Esme were uneasy over the reported White House criticism until Statesman Stimson soothed their feelings with a public statement to the effect that their conference, informal, personal, had been quite "proper...
...Reasons given for lynchings have been: murder, rape, "incendiary language," unpopularity, talking back to a white man, jilting white girls, not jilting them, attempting court action against white men, forgetting to use "sir," seeming prosperous, attempting to enter a car where white men were sitting, attempting to vote or run for office, mistaken identity, standing in the way of a cool breeze...
...London, a few hours before the French flyers landed in Spain, Sir Arthur Witten Brown lunched with encomiums. On June 14, 1919, he and the late Sir John Alcock started from St. Johns, Newfoundland, in a Vickers-Vimy-Rolls with two Rolls-Royce motors. Next day they Ianded at their precise destination, Clifden, Ireland...