Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good diplomat must always be diplomatic. Recently Rt. Hon. Sir Esme William Howard, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, Privy Councillor Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Ambassador to the U. S. from the Court of St. James's, proved himself a good diplomat when one James T. Carter, Lynchburg (Va.) lumberman, wrote him a letter demanding that Sir Esme "join hands with the U. S." by relinquishing the privilege of diplomatic liquor importations. The British Ambassador replied (via his private secretary) that he would willingly do so, provided...
Last week Sir Esme made the British Embassy dry. He did it voluntarily, without pressure from the State Department, by refusing to sign any more requisitions for liquor importations. The Drys hailed him as a "great good fellow." South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease, prime agitator for Dry embassies in Washington, took off his hat and bowed to him. He was saluted by Henry Ford for his "fine old English spirit...
...Plan. Late last week precise, efficient Sir Josiah Stamp, head of the British Delegates, busied himself with the actual mechanical details of writing out and rushing to the printers the final draft of the agreement, known to the delegates as Draft C. Beyond that there remained only the affixing of the delegates' signatures and its submission to and (presumably) ratification by the governments of England, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the U. S. and Germany. The final obstacle-the Belgian franc business-seemed to have disappeared when Germany solemnly pledged herself to settle the War currency question before Sept.1, when...
...king's doctors and all the king's nurses who had attended during his illness received recognition in the birthday honors list. Elevated to peerages were onetime First Lord of the Admiralty William C. Bridgeman, Col. Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Sir Robert Sanders, Sir William Tyrell, Newspaper Owner Sir William Ewert Berry. The Order of Merit was conferred upon Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Novelist-Dramatist John Galsworthy. An earldom was granted to Viscount Inch-cape of Strathnaver (shipping...
...Even narrower than Lady Astor's was the squeak of immaculate, bemonocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary of the Baldwin government. In the West Birmingham constituency which his late great father, "Joe" Chamberlain, pillar of Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a lead of only 50 votes over his Labor opponent. Incredulous, he demanded a recount. His lead then shrank to 43. In contrast, Sir Austen's humbler young halfbrother, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, won what the London Times called "the most outstanding Conservative personal victory," a majority...