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Gilbert, Robert or Oswald-Oswald, Robert or Gilbert? For months political observers have played a counting-out game with these names trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent...
Fifth son of the late Earl of Crawford, tall Sir Ronald is high in chivalry, can match order for order with the present British Ambassador at Washington, courtly Sir Esme Howard. Both are Knights Commander of the Bath, both are Knights Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, both have an imposing row of subsidiary ribbons to blazon their lapels. Of interest to Washington diners-out is the fact that unlike Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ronald Lindsay is not a teetotaler, will almost certainly abolish the rule against the importation of embassy liquor...
...York Herald Tribune (Republican) : "For several years he has been regarded as one of the most brilliant and successful of British diplomatists, so that his appointment to Washington is also in the nature of a compliment...
...good" even to porters, dining car stewards, boot-blacks. They were all primed in advance. He traveled to Manhattan as the "guest" of railroad presidents, hotel owners, Mayor James John Walker and everyone he met. Friends scheduled every hour of his time, to luncheons, matinees, dinners, surprise soirees. In Washington he was received and cared for by his good friend and Palo Alto neighbor, Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover and other members of the Bohemian Club relish, among other famed Folger stunts, his dialog between two Chinese missionaries. Another famed Folgerism: preventing Morris Gest from making an after-dinner speech...
...hero-ized with its announcement that it would lend $43 a share ($11 above the market at one point) to employes who had borrowed on their holdings. Other helping companies were Standard Oil of New Jersey, Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, U. S. Steel, Newton Steel. Late last week, when Washington's official silence was broken with promise of the tax reduction, then of an industrial conference, Hoover joined the ranks of heroes. No mere bullish oratory, this statement meant Prosperity was expected to remain, meant bigger corporate earnings and dividends, more spending and employing by the rich...