Word: washburne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Number One. At 2.30 the previous afternoon, Judge Elbert H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporation invited a number of distinguished persons to attend a meeting at his office in Manhattan. The guests included Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mark O. Prentiss; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; William B. Joyce, Chairman of the National Surety Co.; Governor Smith of New York, Assemblyman F. Trubee Davison and others...
Regarding the facts of Mr. Robert Morris Washburn's call I know nothing; but no doubt that, too, is a myth...
...became known that Edward Elwell Whiting, an editor of the Boston Herald, had called at the White House, had been refused admittance. Also, that Robert Morris Washburn had suffered a similar disappointment . Both are authors of laudatory biographies of the President . Both biographies were used extensively in the 1924 campaign . Both tell how a Massachusetts legislator once introduced Mr. Coolidge with the words : " Like the singed cat , he is better than he looks . " But exactly why the President is offended (if he is offended), not one politician could tell another...
...President Coolidge received the resignations of U. S. Minister Albert H. Washburn at Vienna, of U. S. Minister Theodore Brentano at Budapest...
...view of the national character of the student body and especially the large numbers of law teachers who come for graduate research, there is every reason why a professor of Criminal Law at Harvard should achieve for the law of tomorrow what Story and Greenleaf, Parsons and Washburn did for the law of the past...