Word: consulars
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...splendid opportunity in the Russian service. We have only 32 men in the whole service who speak the Russian language, and they are in great demand. In the next two or three years, there will be opportunities for one or two hundred trained men in this branch of the consular department...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia has indeed had an explosive career. Born on Manhattan's Varick Street 51 years ago, he grew up at Army posts. His father, a bandmaster, died of embalmed beef at Tampa during the Spanish-American War. When he was 20, Fiorello got into the consular service, serving at Budapest, Trieste and Fiume. A row over immigrant inspection sent him back to Ellis Island, where he was interpreter until 1910, when he began to practice law. He went to Congress on the Republican ticket in 1917, took a leave of absence when the War broke...
...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...