Word: consulate
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...killed while onlooking. An automobile careened down the street, its occupants firing into the crowd. Down went 17-year-old Walter Medina, shouting: "Viva la Democracies!" Three days later the police announced that three men had confessed to the killing of Teacher Morales. One of them was Italian Vice Consul Andres Musciani...
...called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said she: "I may have jokingly said I wanted another season of foxhunting here in America"; but she denied ever remarking that the Nazis came from, and would return to, the gutter. Meantime in Manhattan American-born Cecil White, wife of Gaetano Vecchiotti, Italian Consul General, looked forward to expulsion with pleasure, singsonged: "I'm glad to go, I'm glad to go; we haven't been treated very well here, you know...
...Shaw spent five years in Russia, served as U.S. vice consul in Siberia, helped spirit the bones of the Tsar's family out of the Soviet Union to the British at Harbin, Manchuria. A vice president, he now bosses National City's foreign exchange trading...
...most important forms of aid which the U.S. is giving Britain was until last week practically a secret from the American people. Waterfront strollers (and every Axis consul who is on the job) have seen British warships putting into East Coast ports where there are U.S. Navy yards-putting in for supplies, overhaul, repairs of battle and storm damage. But only over the bellowing body of Secretary of the Navy Knox (see p. 41) could any paper mention any of them. So it remained for a higher authority to give the public an idea of how much was going...
Last week the Mexican Consul General in Manhattan announced a deal whereby 1) millions of pesos of native capital went to work in Mexico, encouraged by the new friendly atmosphere of the Avila Camacho regime, 2) Mexico took a big step toward her own industrialization, 3) Japan lost another customer in the Western Hemisphere, 4) a Massachusetts textile firm sold a batch of idle machinery...