Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great age of African exploration, when the world was thrilling to the achievements of Livingstone and Stanley, and the statesmen of Europe were at the height of their wild scramble for all the remaining corners of the earth. Young Johnston drifted naturally into Colonial administration as a Vice Consul in the Cameroons. Thereafter he served all over Africa, from Nigeria in the West to Mount Kilimanjaro and Nyasaland in the East. With an incomprehensible industry he controlled the natives, pushed British trade, extored, painted, studied native languages, worked as a botanist and zoologist, wrote books and articles, dealt with...
...Yankee Consul. The screen version of Raymond Hitchcock's musical comedy coyly shies away from a plot most of the time. This permits the insertion of many comic scenes of the Mack Sennett breed. But in the end you can watch the young American (Douglas MacLean), posing as the consul to Rio de Janeira, rescue the necessary senorita (Patsy Ruth Miller...
...Jacksonville, is a graduate of Atlanta University. In the South he was principal of a Negro high school and practised law. Then he moved to Manhattan to collaborate with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, in writing a light opera which was never produced. Later he became U. S. Consul for various Latin-American countries. Then he was a contributor to various magazines, and now is Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., which carries on propaganda for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, for releasing the Negro soldiers who took part in the Houston riots...
Some hours later when the Ambassadorial party reached London it was greeted first by a dense fog and then by U. S. Consul General Skinner, J. B. Monk of the Foreign Office, who represented Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, J. Wilson Taylor, Secretary of the Pilgrims who represented Lord Desborough, the President, and by Sir John Henry for Sir Auckland Geddes, retiring British Ambassador...
Present at the speakers' table were: the Rev. Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, President of Peking University; Ziang-ling Chang, Chinese Consul General in Manhattan; Tsannyoen Philip Sze, Chinese Vice Consul General in Manhattan; Mrs. Finley J. Shepard and Miss Susie Sorabji of India, dressed in a red flowing robe and a red veil, her native costume...