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Time was when the foreign diplomat appeared in the news only when he attended a royal christening, or took tea with Her Majesty. Today a newspaper is hardly complete without its piece of "ambassadorial criticism". Mr. Herrick's Champagne speech has stirred up more unfavorable comment than it warrants. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIPLOMATIC MANNERS | 11/7/1923 | See Source »

Pinchot. Following the conference at which Secretary Mellon rounded up the Pennsylvania delegates as uninstructed, Mr. Pinchot countered with another blow aimed at the Administration's enforcement of the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 29). The Governor wrote to the Secretary asking: "Will you let my state officers go into plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

Colonel George Harvey, Ambassador at the Court of St. James, was preparing to sail for home. Before he left, he attended a farewell din- ner of the famous Anglo-American Society, The Pilgrims. There he made a speech in which he said two things: 1) that our Administration has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stage Whisper | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

An inquisitive reporter went to the White House, said he had heard that Secretary Hughes was to resign. Was it true? The inquisitive reporter was informed, 1) that the President was certain the rumor was unfounded; 2) that the President does not deny rumors of changes in the personnel of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Nov. 5, 1923 | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

In 1916 Dr. Crile was President of the College of Surgeons, the organization which maintains American surgery at its high standards of efficiency. Its 2,800 members are chosen after rigid investigation of their professional records, including 50 case histories of operations. It has done more than any other agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Human Machine | 11/5/1923 | See Source »