Word: consul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual July load of tourists, plantation owners, white scientists, dark Oriental traders, the S. S. Tenyo Maru steamed through the Golden Gate. Watching the San Francisco skyline was a young Chinese woman, dressed in the smartest U. S. style?Mrs. Sui'e Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese Vice Consul at San Francisco. She was returning from a visit to her homeland. When the liner had docked she, a lady of some importance, requested courtesy-of-the-port, that her baggage might be passed and delivered at once. The Customs men demurred. She pointed to the imposing official seals that...
Because the situation was delicate, Vice Consul Kao and his wife were not arrested for several days, sought temporary refuge in San Francisco's Chinatown. Then the Chinese Minister at Washington, Dr. C. C. Wu, announced Vice Consul Kao's suspension. The Kuomintang of America, branch of the potent political organization behind the Nanking government, demanded their recall to China for trial. The impression spread that certain death, from a headsman's sword cleaving into the back of her bent neck, awaited Mrs. Kao if she were deported. Although Minister Wu, taking pains to announce that decapitation was not China...
When only smoking embers remained on the hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...
Some weeks ago alert Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ferreted out the incident. Remembering the "consular agreement" which provides that Italy may settle the estate of any Italian citizen who dies while living temporarily in the U. S. and vice versa, Signor Mussolini instructed Consul Emanuele Grazzi at New York to file claim for the Comincio savings...
Married. Charles Jacob Young, son of Owen D. Young, chairman of the late successful Reparations Conference in Paris (see p. 14); and Esther Marie Christensen, Cleveland Junior Leaguer, daughter of Niels Anthon Christensen, Danish vice-consul and airbrake inventor; in Cleveland...