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...California. After being graduated from Harvard (1878) he spurred his father's enterprises, added to them (Mills hotels for poor workingmen; mines, real estate, banks, railroads, steamships, public utilities). He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History. His sister is Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the late Ambassador to Great Britain...
...City and Ambassador Hammond tendered their luncheon to Royalty, last week, on the eve of returning to the U. S. for a short visit. They leave in charge of the Embassy in Madrid, quietly renowned Counselor Sheldon Whitehouse. He prepared for diplomacy as private secretary to the late Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, graduated to be Chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department, is suave, astute...
...William Thomas Manning, Bishop of New York, like many a bishop inclined to deal pleasantly with the Roman hierarchy, uttered his dictum on the encyclical and upon church unity at the annual meeting of the Church Women's League for Patriotic Service in the Manhattan home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union] on account...
...Summary: HARVARD YALE Henry, Salmon, g. g., Rudy Stolimeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Whitelaw Clark, r.f.b. l.f.b. Hersey Carr, Booth, Rudd, l.h.b. r.h.b., Robertson Rudd, Carr, c.h.b. c.h.b., Rumsey, Hitchcock Barnes, r.h.b. l.h.b., Harte Kerness, c. c., Wylie Driggs, l.o.f. r.o.f., Fletcher Vogel, Ryan, Bodde, l.i.f. r.i.f., Smith Haskell, r.o.f. l.o.f., Ashley, Everett, Brown Danielian, r.i.f. l.i.f., Sleath, Everett...
...order to return to Washington, to work "with the office boys of the State Department underworld." He soon became chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. President Taft, aware of his abilities, sent him back to London (where his career had begun) to the duties of Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid being in ill health. President Wilson, aware, made him Assistant Secretary of State during the War, and later gave to him the post of Minister to the Netherlands. In 1924 he reached the top title, Ambassador, his assignment being to Belgium...