Word: ambassadorships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rooster is Rentfro Banton Creager, red-haired Brownsville bank president, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss, onetime gubernatorial nominee, good friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...
...Prince, buyer and seller of railroads, with his 70-room Prides Crossing, Mass., home, is amply rich for the French ambassadorship. He already spends eight months of each year at his homes in Paris and Pau. His son, Norman, was one of the founders of France's Lafayette Escadrille...
...ruse of selling a dull re-hash on the strength of the original success. Nothing of the sort is true in this case, partly because of Burton Hendrick's studied sense of the dramatic, mostly because of the essential fullness of Page's life before he ever thought of ambassadorship. From cub-reporter in St. Joseph, Mo., he rose rapidly to New York newspaperdom, managed and edited the Forum, and later The Atlantic Monthly?"report-ing and interpreting American civilization." In 1900, as co-founder of Doubleday, Page & Co., he entered into what he was content to consider the culmination...
...life to attend to his interests, Mr. Herrick continued so politically potent that he twice declined to become Secretary of the Treasury, when offered that post by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Finally President Taft found a plum to tempt "the man from Cleveland." Would he accept the U. S. Ambassadorship to France? Mr. Herrick would?but for a strange, sound reason?at that time, 1912, his hobby was industrial credits, and he deemed the methods of the Credit Fonder of France the most advanced and worthy of study...
...seldom that a young diplomat is appointed to an ambassadorship without first having served as a minister to some relatively unimportant country. A recent case in the German diplomatic service is that of the now German Ambassador to France, Dr. von Hoesch, who was Counselor of the Embassy in Paris before being elevated to his present rank. However, Dr. von Prittwitz is reputedly one of the cleverest diplomats in the employ of the Reich and one that apparently enjoys the full confidence of his superiors in the Wilhelmstrasse...