Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to realize that I am a personal friend of the President of the United States," was the reputed parting shot of Ambassador Sumner Welles to President Ramon Grau of Cuba before Mr. Welles returned to Washington (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week President Roosevelt recognized the five-day-old Cuban Government of the Island's new President that shrewd old politico Colonel Carlos Mendieta put in by a coup d'etat (TIME, Jan. 29). Straightway the Colonel cabled to Mr. Welles, now Assistant Secretary of State in Washington: "I am particularly grateful to Your Excellency . . . for your noble...
...came when Cuban Chief Delegate Angel Giraudy interrupted a debate to say: "I declare with deliberation that the United States is intervening in Cuba, strongly intervening! No United States Marines have landed, but the United States has been engaged in intrigue against our president and his Government through Ambassador Sumner Welles [see p. 15]. If that is not intervention, what...
...decades has a U. S. Ambassador been withdrawn amid such withering blasts of criticism as huffed and puffed in Havana last week when lean, bland, Socialite Sumner Welles, jauntily swinging his cane, stepped into a Pan American Airways liner and roared off to Miami on his way back to Washington...
...writing his colossal story of one Dublin day in France in 1914. In 1918 Ezra Pound sent part of it to Margaret Anderson who published it in her Little Review. The U. S. Post Office Department seized and burned all copies sent through the mails. Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner* had Margaret Anderson indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly to U. S. tourists to snuggle home. Immediate results of last week's decision were two. Publisher Cerf...
...Last week, Vice Suppressor Sumner was reduced to writing a letter to the New York Herald Tribune threatening to prosecute publishers & distributors of indecent Christmas cards...