Word: grosvenor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked fast. Hanging to the telephone, he had ordered consulates in Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool-where most Americans embarked-to get the names of passengers. When he arrived that morning at the seven-story red-brick former apartment house that is now the U. S. Embassy, No. 1 Grosvenor Square, he was able to cable the State Department an almost complete list of Americans aboard. Two days later, in tension and in shirt sleeves, Joe Kennedy spent his 51st birthday working at his desk...
...issue of TIME, you have an item entitled "Three Hutchinses." What about the fourth, William Grosvenor Hutchins, instructor of English at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio...
...William Grosvenor...
Advance copies of Mr. Chamberlain's speech, marked "confidential," were given to correspondents (including the German) at No. 10 Downing Street at 3 p.m., five hours before the dinner at distinguished Grosvenor House. At 6 p.m. German Ambassador Herbert von Dirksen, who was to occupy a seat at the speakers' table, got hold of a copy of the speech, telephoned Berlin. At 7 p.m. Ambassador von Dirksen notified 25 obedient Nazi newsmen not to attend, and telephoned his "regrets" to the association. The Ambassador "felt an embarrassing situation might arise if in the course of the evening mention...
...immediately obeyed. At last Jan himself volunteered, silently lifted his father's picture from the wall, bowed, left the room. Last week there was no longer a place for able Jan in the diplomatic service. On January 1 he will move out of the Legation in Grosvenor Place, has no other plan than a projected two-month trip...