Word: personae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escorting her to the table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the House, who contests title of second lady of the land with Mrs. Gann, absented herself from the function. ¶Hearing from Tokyo that William Cameron Forbes of Boston would be persona grata as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, the President sent Mr. Forbes's appointment to the Senate. Also appointed last week: Ralph J. Totten of Nashville, Tenn., to be first U. S. Minister to the Union of South Africa...
...Last week President Hoover selected William Cameron Forbes, 60, Boston merchant, polo enthusiast, bachelor grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be Ambassador to Japan. Before the appointment was officially announced Tokyo was asked if Mr. Forbes was persona grata. Two months ago Mr. Forbes led a Hoover investigation commission back from Haiti with recommendations which the President accepted as the basis for a new U. S. policy toward that black republic (TIME, April 7). Familiar enough is Mr. Forbes with the Pacific and its problems. President Roosevelt first sent him to the Philippines in 1904 as a member...