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...Representative of the State Department at London is Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton. Like his predecessors, Secretary of State Kellogg, George Harvey, John W. Davis, Walter Hines Page, Mr. Houghton has no official home provided by the U. S. Like them, he must rent a suite in a hotel, a private house, anything he can get, and hang out a sign: "Embassy of the United States of America." Several years ago, J. P. Morgan public-spiritedly made the U. S. a gift of two adjoining houses in London for use as an Embassy. Before they could be used, it was necessary...
...Service Retirement Law, making retirement voluntary at 65, mandatory at 70, increasing maximum retirement pay from $720 to $1,200.* (Went to House.) ¶ Adopted the conference report on the Appropriation Bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. (Went to the President.) ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Alanson B. Houghton to be Ambassador to Great Britain. ¶ Ratified a convention with Chile for the mutual protection of trademarks. ¶ Gave up a precious afternoon and evening of work in respect to the memory of the late Senator Medill McCormick (see below). ¶ Extensively debated the McFadden Bill, which...
...Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton has been accredited to Germany for about three years and in all that time he has allegedly never made a speech. But, during the past week, he broke precedent, delivered an oration at a dinner given by the American Luncheon Club of Berlin in honor of Baron von Maltzan, new German Ambassador to the U. S. in succession...
...London to the State Department sets up a train of consequences in the diplomatic service. After but a few days' suspense for the hopefuls who would have liked to have followed in the diverse footsteps of Messrs. Page, Davis, Harvey and Kellogg, the President announced the name of Alanson B. Houghton as Mr. Kellogg's successor...
...Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, home on leave, spoke at Chicago about Germany. The burden of his speech was that the Experts' Plan stood between Germany and utter ruin. He stressed the importance of the loan to Germany (see REPARATIONS...