Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscount Burnham, Chairman: "... The greatest rodeo and business roundup in the world...
...Viscount Stafford, Tower Hill...
Agriculture: Viscount Pedralva...
...Viscount Ishii, ex-Foreign Minister, has twice visited the U. S. in an official capacity: once in 1907, when he conferred with President Roosevelt on problems arising from anti-Japanese disturbances; again, in 1917, when he headed the special mission sent by the Japanese Government to the U. S. which ended in the Lansing-Ishii agreement. It was he who was largely responsible for securing Japan's acceptance of the invitation to the Washington Arms Conference...
...Lansing-Ishii agreement, said to have been drawn up by Viscount Ishii and President Wilson in 1917, was to affirm the principle of the Open Door in China. A paragraph, however, recognized Japan's "paramount interest"?a part which led the Japanese to suppose erroneously that the U. S. was intent upon abandoning her interest in the Far East...