Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination of W. R. Castle Jr. '00, of the District of Columbia, to be special ambassador to Japan during the international conference on naval armament, which will be held in London next month, was made known yesterday...
...Jersey's best and biggest Republican wigs gathered last week at Atlantic City for a farewell feast to Walter Evans Edge, once their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month...
...Debated the tariff bill. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Senator Edge as Ambassador to France (see col 2, of Gustav Aaron Youngquist as As- sistant Attorney General. ¶ Adopted (49-33) a resolution by Mon- tana's Walsh ending the special session. ¶ Adjourned until...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
...Miguel Mariano Gomez Signed a city ordinance forbidding the use of rear view mirrors in taxicabs. Citizens had complained that cab drivers were using the mirrors for "the impudent eyeing of the pulchritude and behavior of passengers." Safe therefore from the impudent eyes of Cuban cabdrivers was U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, who last week presented his credentials to President Gerardo Machado as successor to Ex-Ambassador Col. Noble Brandon Judah...