Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With proper pomp Michael MacWhite presented himself at the White House one afternoon last week and said he was King George's new Minister from the Irish Free State. President Hoover, in U. S. diplomatic uniform,* received him in the Blue Room. Offering his letter of credence Minister MacWhite said: "My government has entrusted to me the very agreeable mission of conveying to you their most sincere good wishes for the continued and increasing prosperity of the great people whose destinies are committed to your care." Replied President Hoover: "I will ask you to convey to your Government...
Secretary Lamont has on his hands one problem that will certainly require the interposition of the President's power to straighten it out. This problem is the relationship in foreign fields of the State Department's diplomatic and consular representatives and the Commerce Department's commercial attaches. As Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hoover greatly multiplied these commercial attaches and raised them to a new plane of importance. He picked shrewd men who knew U. S. business and sent them forth to scout the world for new markets. Inevitably they have clashed with the regular foreign service...
...kind of thing in Secretary Lament's department which greatly vexes State Department representatives occurred last week in Vienna where 40 U. S. commercial attaches from all Europe gathered to hear a trade talk by Dr. Julius Klein, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce now traveling abroad. Foreign countries saw in this business conference only another manifestation of "Salesman Sam." The London Daily Express snorted...
...Lament's first tasks as Secretary of Commerce will be to continue this trade-boosting and simultaneously pacify the State Department...
...Hollywood habit of turning income tax matters over to "counselors" who promise to save a taxpayer large sums provided the benefits are equitably divided, has now led to a terrifying state of affairs. Two such "counselors" for cinema folk, Miss Marjorie Berger and Edward H. Hayden, were last week indicted by a U. S. grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of preparing fraudulent tax returns for their big-salaried clients. Cinemactors and actresses quaked at the possibility of conspiracy charges...