Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveler from Washington to Cape Town, Union of South Africa, must journey 11,136 miles if he goes by London; 8,034 miles if he goes direct. To clip 3,102 miles off the diplomatic distance between Washington and Cape Town, to bring the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. into closer relation, steps were taken last week for an exchange of ministers such as the U. S. now conducts with Canada and Irish Free State. The U. S. approved the appointment of Eric H. Louw as South Africa's first envoy to Washington...
Washington considered Ralph James Totten, Consul-General at Cape Town, as a likely U. S. Minister to South Africa...
...Minister Louw opens his legation in Washington, he will find his duties commercial, not political. There are no diplomatic issues now pending between the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. Nor will he have to learn his job, for he knows U. S. business well, was onetime South African Trade Commissioner in the U. S. South African trade with the U. S. has doubled since 1923. Last year the Dominion purchased $55,000,000 worth of goods from the U. S. (automobiles, machinery, farm implements, clothing). The U. S. imported $8,000,000 worth of South African commodities...
Last week God failed to preserve other Methodist lots on the opposite side of the street. These and the house on them were the property of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The government wanted the site for the new home of the Supreme Court of the U. S. A federal board condemned it and Bishop Cannon was obliged to sell. His Virginia admirers in 1925 had given him this $12,500 abode believing he had pauperized himself in the cause of Prohibition. In Washington he lived at the Driscoll Hotel, on the opposite side...
...their next Governor, Virginians will choose in November between a professor of constitutional law at William & Mary and a professor of psychology at Washington & Lee. Anything but academic will be the campaign because each of these schoolmen will personify a side of a question as large as the political South: Can the Republican party hold or extend locally the gains it made nationally last year when Democrats deserted their ticket...