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After a tour of duty in the consular service, he came back to New York, got a job as an interpreter at Ellis Island, studied law at night and began pointing toward politics. In 1916 he ran for Congress as a Republican in a Tammany-controlled district, and amazed everyone except himself by getting elected. In World War I, he was a famous flyer, noted for his baggy uniform, his impatience of protocol and his patriotic speeches to huge Italian audiences...
...typical emigrant was husky William A. ("Bill") Dickman, 34, who visited the U.S. consular office on the twelfth floor of Vancouver's Marine Building one day last week. What Bill Dickman wanted was a "job with a future." For four years during the depression, he was jobless; finally he got work driving a railway speeder in the lumber woods. For eight years he left the logging camps only once in every four months to see his wife Christine and his young son. When the war began, he got a $300-a-month welder's job in a shipyard...
...Greek consular officials in the U.S. were fussed. Said one: "Very mysterious . . . extremely peculiar. . . ." Said another: "Anything is possible." In Athens, Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris ordered an investigation. The Times speculated that the Greek senders might be victims of "an unfriendly ideology whose followers are spreading propaganda on the bad state of affairs in America...
China's monetary crisis last weekend inspired an excited Associated Press cable from Shanghai: "An American consular announcement today blasted Chinese Premier T. V. Soong's abortive 100% export subsidy program, as Chinese currency continued its dizzy descent, and the complete economic collapse of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist China appeared to be a very real possibility...
...typical incident leading to that realization occurred in the early '205 in Kiev (where Comrade Balabanov, then a Secretary in the Communist International, was living). A mysterious Count Pirro appeared as "Brazilian Ambassador," let it be known that he would hire only non-Bolsheviks for his consular staff, that he would grant Brazilian passports to anyone wanting to leave Russia for political reasons. Anti-Communists flocked to his office, and were promptly arrested by the Cheka. Pirro himself was a Cheka agent. Outraged by such police methods, Balabanov went straight to Lenin to protest. She reports in her memoirs...