Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flight of a young man to Mexico City lost none of its pristine glamour, last week; but from his lone, receding plane the deft hand of U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow conjured an achievement in statecraft. Under his suave persuasion the President of Mexico embarked on a new policy of "peso diplomacy"-a policy which could scarcely have been launched had not Ambassador Morrow given Mexicans the emotional treat of "going Lindbergh...
Coke--Fitzpatrick, Whitney v. J. Smith--Hinkle, Maider
WILLIAM COLLINS WHITNEY was Secretary of the Navy, and not Gideon Welles (Civil War) or Josephus Daniels (World...
...Belisario Porras, onetime (1918-20; 1924) president of Panama, last week announced he would cause a statue of Theodore Roosevelt by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry Payne) Whitney, to be erected at Culebra Cut, on the Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue...
...Calles proved himself not only supple of body but adept at mellow geniality. Scene: the $375,000 private train of the President of Mexico which puffed all week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another. On board were the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow (onetime Morgan partner), and tart-witted cowboy-clown Will Rogers. They, and other guests of the President, were privileged to see him in playful mood. At Pabellon Ranch, State of Aguascalientes, Senor Calles seated his guests around a bull ring. He had a surprise for them, he said. Quietly...