Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Archibald II. Grimke, former U. S. Consul to Santo Domingo and President of the American Negro Academy, for 70 years of distinguished service to his country and his race...
...local U. S. Consul and the U. S. Legation at Peking filed protests with the Civil Governor. Apologies were in order...
...wisdom of the State Department's restriction may be questioned, but its legal authority is less assailable. A great deal of discretion rests with consuls in the granting of visas. A consul has a right to refuse a visa to anyone likely to come into conflict with the laws of the U. S?as, for example, a person who might advocate overthrow of the U. S. Government or the practice of polygamy. It is very dubius whether Count Karolyi, unmuzzled, would do such things...
...appears that he applied in haste for a visa to come to this country because his wife was ill. The consul in England, doubtless wishing "to play safe" and yet to grant the visa without waiting to consult Washington, agreed to grant it summarily if Count Karolyi would avoid public discussion of political matters?and the Count voluntarily pledged himself to silence...
...changing to a downpour when the islands were approached. The Los Angeles had passed through fog and rain without difficulty, but when the port of Hamilton was actually sighted at 4:45 on Saturday morning, she was water-logged and very heavy. The S.S. Patoka, with the U. S. Consul at Hamilton and many Island officials on board, was in harbor carrying its gigantic mooring mast. The former Navy tanker passed into the open sea to make mooring easier. But heavy winds complicated the problem of mooring, so that, after five hours' hovering flight, it was decided to return...