Word: tegucigalpa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibson career began at the foot of the foreign service ladder, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1908. It took him ten years to reach Paris. Woodrow Wilson in 1919 made him U.S. Minister to Poland. Calvin Coolidge transferred his ministerial duties to Switzerland and finally, in 1927, elevated him to the rank of U.S. Ambassador at Brussels...
...Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Charles Augustus Lindbergh entered the reception hall. The crowd of stiffly dressed, excited diplomats caught their breaths as President Miguel Paz Barahona motioned him to the presidential chair. The U. S. youth, unsurprised, sat gravely down. Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth...
Died. General Miguel R. Davila, onetime (1908-09) president of the Honduran provisional government; at Tegucigalpa, Honduras...
Leaders. Since the Conference is to be concerned chiefly with hard work, the delegates are nearly all seasoned diplomats with a lifetime of experience in international dealings. The U. S. delegate, Mr. Hugh Simpson Gibson, began his diplomatic career as a secretary to the U. S. legation at Tegucigalpa in 1908. He progressed steadily through increasingly responsible posts at Honduras, Havana, Santo Domingo, Brussels, London and Paris, until he was appointed U. S. Minister to Poland (1919-24) and finally to Switzerland, his present post. Paradoxically, the German delegate is Count von Bernstorff, famed as the pre-war German Ambassador...
...withdrawal of U. S. sailors was taken to signify that the Government at Tegucigalpa, the capital, had the situation in hand; but no definite report came from Honduras, except that a skirmish near Ceiba between Government troops and rebels ended in a victory for the former...