Word: macveagh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trouble enough has the Japanese post given President Hoover. Most expensive of diplomatic jobs (it is estimated to require $50,000 per year more than the ambassadorial salary of $17,000) it was left vacant a year ago by the resignation of Charles MacVeagh. President Hoover offered it to both Hubert Work and Roy Owen West, who both declined. The London parley necessitated an appointment, even temporary, of a man capable of conducting the intricate behind scenes negotiations incident to any international conference. A new complication had arisen with Japan's request for a change in its cruiser...
Married. Charlton MacVeagh, of Manhattan, youngest son of Ambassador to Japan Charles MacVeagh; and Adele Katte Merrill, Bedford, N. Y., Junior Leaguer; at Bedford...
Other Secretaries of the Treasury who were stockholders in private corporations, of whom the Judiciary Committee learned, were George Bruce Cortelyou, Franklin MacVeagh, William Gibbs McAdoo, David Franklin Houston...
Engaged. Charlton MacVeagh of Manhattan (J. P. Morgan & Co.), son of Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan; to Adele Katte Merrill, Manhattan socialite...
...Apocrypha out of their Bibles, retaining only one little bit, the "Song of the Three Children," in the prayer book of sects which have prayer books. Recently, a U. S. court admitted tax-free a cargo of Douai Bibles. These, however, included the Apocryphal book which Mr. MacVeagh had imported separately. The court's ruling made it clear that for legal purposes the Apocrypha is part of the Bible only when it is bound with the other universally recognized books...