Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immigration muddle the English Shipping Companies, The United States Lines, and Robert P. Skinner (American Consul General in London) are at odds over the administration of our immigration quota...
...United States Lines withdrew from this arrangement because, being only one of twelve companies, the advantage was with its British competitors, and because of a practice of the British lines of booking immigrants before the immigrants had their passports viséd by our consul. This, the United States Lines contended, often worked an injustice, because immigrants might book passage, sell their homes, and then discover that the consul would not visé their passports...
...British lines refuse to abandon this practice, and give as a reason that our consul would not, for example, visé before June 1 passports for sailing on July 1, and that it was necessary for them to make bookings longer in advance. Their real reason, it is understood, is a suspicion that when a prospective immigrant, unbooked for sailing, goes to the American consulate to get a visa, American officials there use undue influence to make him take an American vessel...
Married. Consuelo Morgan, divorced wife of the Comte de Maupas du Juglart, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul General at Brussels, and sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, to Benjamin Thaw, Jr., acting chargé d'affaires of the American Embassy, at Ixelles, Belgium...
...Sequeira is well known as a pianist and composer, having been recently awarded the Cross of Charles III by King Alfonso of Spain for his original compositions. Born at Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sr. Sequeira became Nicaraguan consul in Boston, which position be still holds. He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and was a member of the faculty of this institution until a few years ago. He resigned in order to go to Spain with the special purpose of acquainting the Spanish public with Latin American musical motives in which he has been specializing and at the same time...