Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wendell was admitted to the Suffolk Bar and for a time served in the Far East as secretary to the Hon. Edwin Morgan, consul at Dalny. After working with the law firm of Hill, Barlow, and Homans, he joined Lee, Higginson and Company, being admitted to partnership in 1918. He was vice-president of the Harvard Club of Chicago, chairman of the Northwest District and member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Council of Boy Scouts, and on the Publicity Committee of the Liberty Loan Organization during the first four Loans
...fact that she could not speak Russian. Acting with this assertion as their excuse they took from her: 1) letters of credit aggregating $3,000; 2) all her "undecipherable" papers and notes in English. Mrs. Flanagan was then allowed to proceed, reached Reval, applied to the local Soviet consul, and secured through him the return of her papers. He explained that the local frontier officials had exceeded their authority, patriotically supposing that "nobody ought to be allowed to have as much money as did Mme. Flanagan...
...whatsoever of a permanent sojourn. The law requires a foreign student desiring to enter the United States outside the quota of his country first to furnish proof that he has been admitted to an American educational institution, and second, what is more difficult, to establish proof to the American consul that he intends to return to his own country at the end of a stated time. What constitutes proof rests at the discretion of the consul, who may, if he wishes, refuse admission to an alien who has complied with all the legal requirements...
...months ago the American consul in a foreign city was interviewed on behalf of a Polish student who had been trying for six months to obtain a viso for the United States, and were told by the consul in plain terms and in the presence of the applicant that in the last analysis the matter was up to him and he might refuse at season regardless of evidence submitted to him. He added that their policy was to refuse all applications for entrance outside the quota, and to make only rare exceptions...
...Mikado and his family or visiting royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered Tokyo police and engaged in a street brawl. The U. S. consul, irate, had thereafter refused to receive Dean Lough of the Floating Unversity. The disorderly ones were virtually deported. Their names: Duncan MacMartin, Enos Richardson, Wendall C. Goddard of New York; Harry R. Addison of Cleveland; Frank T. Morgan of New Haven, Conn.; George E. Tierney of Philadelphia...