Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the American consular officials at Newcastle-on-Tyne had exceeded their authority by attempting to divert passengers from British to American shipping lines. The British Foreign Office insisted that the two accused officials be transferred from Newcastle, and canceled the exequaturs (official consular recognition) of Slater and Brooks, Consul and Vice Consul of the U. S. The U. S. State Department instituted three separate inquiries, which in each case failed to substantiate the charges. The British Government, however, stood by its original accusation. Secretary Hughes replied by closing the Consulate and ordering the premises sold. British shipping circles soon...
Married. Miss Camilla Lippincott, daughter of Joshua Bertram Lippincott, late Philadelphia publisher, to Gerald H. Selous, British consul at Casablanca, Morocco; in Paris. The best man was Col. James A. Logan, American observer with the Reparation Commission. Present were Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France; Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Baron Avezzana, Italian Ambassdor to France...
...short time ago Mrs. Coffin, wife of the U. S. Consul General at Berlin, Miss Goldsmith, Assistant U. S. Trade Commissioner to Germany, Mrs. Conger, wife of the Berlin correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, were traveling in a Cologne-Berlin train. Into their compartment jumped Herr Kurt Korthaus, a member of the Reichstag. He objected to the number of bags on the rack. He told the ladies to remove them. They said they were too heavy, suggested that he call the conductor to remove them or do it himself...
...Esme arrived on the Olympic and was met by Sir H. Gloster Armstrong, British Consul-General at Manhattan, and Major General H. K. Bethell, British Military Attaché to the Embassy in Washington...
Admiral Lin of the "independent" Chinese Navy bowed to U. S. Consul General Cunningham at Shanghai and said he was sorry that the Chinese gunboat Haichow had fired upon an American merchantman last December. Captain Hsu of the Haichow also apologized...