Word: consulate
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...Straits of Gibraltar in a stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain's history, impersonating the Roman Consul Galba, El Cid or Columbus...
...David K. E. Bruce, 55, banker and diplomat, to be special U.S. observer with the Interim Committee of the European Defense Community. Baltimore-born, Princeton-trained Dave Bruce has mixed law practice (1921-26), banking and private business (1928-40) with Government service: he was a vice-consul in Rome in the '20s, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947-48, chief of the ECA in France in 1948-49, then became in turn Ambassador to France and Under Secretary of State in Washington...
Judging the debate were Erwin Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and L. C. S. Barber, British Consul General of Boston. The third ballot was rendered by the audience...
Judging the debate are Erwin Kanham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor and L. C. S. Barber, British Consul General of Boston. The third ballot decision will be rendered by the audience...
...killed his father and other members of his family. Onassis had enough cash to buy passage for Argentina, where immigration restrictions were few. He worked for seven years as a tobacco importing agent, piled up about $180,000; in 1930, with his Greek citizenship restored, he became Greek consul general, at the age of 24, in Buenos Aires. Onassis supervised the comings & goings of Greek grain vessels, soon decided that his future lay in shipping. In the depths of the Depression, when old mariners were abandoning ship, Onassis climbed aboard. He took his savings and bought six Canadian freighters that...