Word: charged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse informed Mr. Mellon that in deference to custom he must call on the Premier of France, M. Poincaré. Moreover, added Mr. Whitehouse, Foreign Minister Briand had already put off his departure for the League session at Geneva...
Died. Ellis L. Dresel, 54, lawyer, diplomatist, signer of the Peace Treaty with Germany, as plenipotentiary and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin after the War, at his home in Pride's Crossing, Mass. A lawyer for 25 years, he suddenly became a diplomat through accidentally being in Berlin when the War broke out and there offering to Ambassador Gerard his services in looking after stranded Americans. Later he was an Attache of the U. S. Embassy at Berlin; aided the Red Cross in caring for prisoners of war hi Germany; headed the political information section...
...Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires at London, left Moscow and, after bumping across the continent and plowing through the North Sea, landed at Harwich. His briefcase contained orders for $75,000,000 worth of machinery, textiles, etc. British manufacturers smacked their lips, rubbed their hands and passed pleasant remarks about the weather. Rakovsky said that he could not pay cash and was about to explain about the wonderful harvest prospects when it became obvious that his audience was no longer interested...
...expected, if his mission is successful, that Count Szechenyi will head the legation at both Washington and Mexico City, being represented in absence at the latter city by a Chargé d'Affaires...
...Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes dictated a note to Lawrence Dennis, U. S. Chargé d'Affaires at. Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras...