Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stores in Nanking, two in Foochow, two in Ningpo, one each in Chefoo. Soochow and Weihaiwei. Last week strapping, cleft-chinned Jan Bat'a could point to 50 chain stores operating in Java, 15 in the Straits Settlements, three in Saigon. Deliberately, according to U. S. consular reports, these stores are going after "not the trade of foreigners and the upper classes, but that of low-class natives still unused to shoes." Meanwhile what of Son Tommy Bat'a? At the funeral of Father Thomas last year Uncle Jan and all the working Bat'a part ners...
...Japan was by no means at war with Russia yet. A Soviet consular official, traveling in a special five-car train with Red Army guards, rumbled into Harbin, perhaps for a parley with General Honjo...
...Ratified a treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights with Norway; ratified another with Poland...
...Marines put up loft. barbed wire fences across side streets, planted machine guns. Into the harbor came Japan's two other airplane carriers. Into the harbor came also four U. S. destroyers from Manila (see p. 9). Reports of the Nanking bombing, traced to the Japanese consular office, said that it was only a "demonstration" and that the shells fired on the town were blank ammunition...
...Large, deep-voiced Edwin Sheddan Cunningham was born in Sevier County, Tenn. 64 years ago Once a mail clerk, he worked in a publishing house for a while, entered the Consular Service in 1898. He has remained in the Far East ever since, is now dean of foreign consuls in Shanghai, known even before the crisis as "the most difficult post in the consular service...