Word: consulars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...designate Partridge, 69, president of Vermont Marble Co., started as a page in the State Senate, was president of his Amherst class (1882, thirteen years before Calvin Coolidge), studied law at Columbia, served the U. S. State Department as its solicitor (1890-93). He has held minor diplomatic and consular jobs. Coincident with the Partridge appointment a general Senate election was ordered for Vermont on March 31, preceded by a party primary March...
...right of foreign residents in China to be tried in their own consular courts...
...provision for the protection of the rights and liberties of the people." Therefore the great powers were closely attentive, fortnight ago, when Foreign Minister Cheng-Ting ("C. T.") Wang cockily announced that his government had abolished the right ("extraterritoriality") of foreigners in China to be tried in their own consular courts (TIME, Jan. 6). For 48 hours it seemed as though foreigners were going to be subjected along with Chinese to the gross and notorious malfeasance of Chinese courts where bribery is rampant, trial by jury unknown, and the local military commander often dictates the decision of the judge...
...rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried by their own consular courts...
...broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant Col. Sam Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz, was being shaved by the ship's barber. Only the barber's steady hand saved him from instant decapitation. As it was, his consular lip was badly gashed. When the storm subsided, the reported sea toll read : 16 ships sunk, 32 beached, 8 abandoned...