Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, last week formally accepting the U. S. Senate seat to which he will return from the London naval conference (TIME, Dec. 9). The day before, 50 potent New Jersey Republicans had met at Orange, formed the "Morrow-for-President-in-1936 Club." Meanwhile the New York Telegram in a front page story had given a headline nomination to New York's Owen D. Young as Candidate Morrow's 1936 Democratic opponent...
...Washington last week arrived nine very polite little Japanese gentlemen. Delegates to the London naval parley, they had stopped off on their way there to discuss with President Hoover, Statesman Stimson and William Richards Castle, the President's new ambassador to their country (see col. 3) Japan's devices, desires and designs at the coming conference. President Hoover honored them with a White House dinner, hoped to reach a preliminary agreement with them on the naval problems ahead...
...good diplomatist must be a pinch-hitter. Pinch-hitting was what President Hoover wanted of Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. when he sent him to bat last week as U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Castle was expected to make one hit and get back to home-plate as fast as possible. His appointment to Tokyo was only for the duration of the five-power naval conference in London. Before his departure, he will confer this week with the Japanese parley delegates passing through...
Smooth, likable, cautious, Ambassador Castle was graduated from Harvard (1900), served his college as instructor and assistant dean for seven years, edited the Graduates Magazine for two more. During the War he was Director of Communications for the Red Cross. He entered the State Department ten years ago, served as chief of the Western European division until his appointment in 1927 as Assistant Secretary of State...
Looking pale and slightly shattered after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Señor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande...