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Word: consulate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Consul Caracas, Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Push & Scamper | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Last week Chinese students at Nanking got out of patience even with the rapid progress now being made by Foreign Minister Dr. C. T. Wang. They knew that he was negotiating with Japanese Consul General Shichitaro Yada; and they thought both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Consul General of Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

They found letters, typewritten reports, money. They could not find the seal. Taking nothing, the thieves, unapprehended, tiptoed out of the office. Many a U. S. consul sleeps with seal under pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Seal, Mustache, Brazilian | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...busy enough christening and confirming, but like as not the christened child has no right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper, and the youngest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Things | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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