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...sister married the German Count Albert von Quadt, onetime Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy at Washington???; thus, on that score alone, De Martino was well known in the Teuton grand monde. He had, from August, 1914, until Italy entered the War in 1915, constantly, loudly and successfully counseled Italy to abandon the Triple Alliance and join the Triple Entente. On this account, too, he was well known in Germany?and well hated. His position called, it was said, for the utmost "dignity, tact, patience and firmness", all of which qualities he showed superlatively...
...Butler had failed to secure his choice for Vice President, he still held the reins. With the organization of the new National Committee he took control as Chairman, and Slemp returned to Washington???as Secretary to the President. The Secretary's feelings can be imagined. His accumulated political wisdom had in no small degree been responsible for Mr. Coolidge's nomination. Quietly he had led the southern delegations into the Coolidge fold. He had wrought to give political power to the President, and now Mr. Coolidge chose to entrust that power to a man who not only went contrary...
...George Washington???Volumes of his correspondence, including letters to James Madison and to the King of Prussia and Germany, asking for the release of Lafayette...
...ever since the Vermonter came to Washington as Vice President, who has toiled night and day in the awful confusion of these first days of the new incumbency, who served Senator Lodge of Massachusetts for seventeen years as secretary, who is considered one of the most competent secretaries in Washington???Mr. Clark is saying nothing. Loyalty is one of the earmarks of the good secretary...
Forty Congressmen, mostly from the West, who have not forgotten the name of Roosevelt, want the present Assistant Secretary of the Navy to be the next Vice President. One of the arguments against Calvin Coolidge is that Massachusetts is too prominent in Washington???when it can number among her sons the Speaker of the House, the Secretary of War, the Republican leader of the Senate and the Vice President. But neither Coolidge nor Roosevelt is excited...