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...yesterday by President Hoover to be the American Ambassador to Japan. The appointment was transmitted to the Senate yesterday afternoon. Mr. Forbes will succeed to the post now filled by another Harvard alumnus, William Richards Castle Jr. '00. Castle had been the only American Ambassador in Tokio since Charles MacVeagh...
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...