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...convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House in the early part of the nineteenth century was a rendezvous of the leaders of maritime Boston. The names over accounts in the ledger of John Jones, the proprietor, show that the patronage included statesmen like Daniel Webster, professional men like Harrison Gray Otis, and military men like General William H. Sumner, but the characteristic features of the house centered around shipping and merchants ship owners, as did the activities of all New England. The leading merchants of the day, like Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Isreal...
...five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month?onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady tricks used by Allied and British statesmen...
...method of demonstration and of proof adopted by Queen-Empress Victoria's onetime Page of Honor is to range widely and exhaustively over the material of post-War documents and disclosures, culling testimony from the very statesmen under whom the War lies were forged and used as deadly weapons. Citing chapter and verse, page and line, Laborite Ponsonby produces the following five "proofs" of his above five assertions...
...told. One of the two Chinese delegates, Dr. Wellington Koo and Dr. Alfred Sze, appeared with a superbly ornate fountain pen which disappeared soon after he loaned it to the other. Correspondents think they know what happened to the pen. Think they noticed that the two statesmen were temporarily estranged, stranger than fiction though the story...
...bands played, no soldiers paraded, when President-Elect Hoover arrived back in Washington after leaving the Utah at Hampton Roads. Herbert Hoover Jr. met Mr. Hoover at the harbor, and Dr. Work, Senator Shortridge of California and a few minor statesmen were at the station. The President-Elect, arriving in Washington, went to the White House and was closeted with the President for a half hour. When they emerged, the President and President-Elect posed for photographs, and Mr. Hoover was plied with newsmen's questions. He declined to answer queries. "You will have to go to the fountain...