Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diplomat Dawes. Upon the backstage scene appeared Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. London had altered his standardized attire: a batwing collar replaced the well-known high turndown with V-opening; in place of the famed, florid hand-sewn neckties made by an old friend of his mother, now deceased, was a typically British cravat. He explained: "I've an alibi now. I'm a diplomat...
...night White House guest, General Dawes conferred with President Hoover on the forthcoming conference, reported on the negotiations which led to the U. S. visit of Prime Minister MacDonald. Many a complex angle of sea power was carefully canvassed by the chief executive and his No. 1 diplomat...
...touched, appraised. In obvious and literal ways, this right hand of John Pierpont Morgan is freely extended among men. A cosmopolite, he knows, understands, and likes the thousands of people of all nations with whom he does business. Because he is patient and urban, he is the Morgan diplomat. In more subtle ways, Mr. Lament can be described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke and he will laugh. Offer him an idea and he will develop it. Put him in the middle of a problem and he will begin to solve it. The doors of his mind swing...
Resigned. John Van Antwerp Mac-Murray, U.S. Minister to China since 1925, to take a position at Johns Hopkins University. More than 20 years a diplomat, he has served at Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Peking. He was an expert Far Eastern advisor to the U. S. delegation at the Washington Disarmament Conference (1921-22). For a time (1924) he served as Assistant Secretary of State...
Trade. The opening of large South American markets to British goods was predicted by Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon, oldtime diplomat, just back from a trade mission (TIME, Sept. 23) to that continent...