Word: consulate
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...doubts" of the Board of Immigration Appeals as to her testimony that she was not a Communist. This dissipation is at best a six-month reprieve. To avoid deportation as an undesirable alien, she must now go to Canada or Mexico, wangle an immigration visa from a U.S. consul. If the consul says Yes, she is a suitable prospective citizen with no further doubts to dissipate...
This flow of supply keeps Eire's shaky economy going. It also feeds and heats Nazi Minister Eduard Hempel's big staff on Dublin's Northumberland Road. And it fuels Jap Consul Fetsuya Beppu's auto on its way to the local golf course. Dev's people and guests were in danger of becoming cold, hungry pedestrians...
...never have thought of the idea if so many important U.S. and Latin American officials had not written us about our Spanish-teaching program here in the U.S. (Among them were the Ambassadors of Panama, Venezuela and Uruguay, the Ministers of El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the Consul General of Cuba, several top-ranking radio members of the Rockefeller Committee, and scores of other dignitaries and just plain interested citizens.) And many of them asked if we could not work out a similar program to teach English to the peoples of Latin America...
...rural, republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...
...consulate had been established at Urumchi in March; in September a British consul arrived. Traffic in Urumchi this fall was back again on the left side of the road, as in Central China. Thus peacefully, with the minimum possible friction, China once again moved up to the great frontiers of her past history...