Word: consulate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...National Press Club and packed the gallery. Boston's beaver-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham chuckled with delight in his dark apartment in what was formerly the Arlington Hotel-where he and the Resettlement Administration are now sole tenants -when he received from the U. S. Consul in Kenya Colony official assurance that his long forgotten record of shooting six leopards on a 17-day safari is still tops in all British East Africa...
Learning of plans for an exhibition of Chilean products in Manhattan, Assistant Chilean Consul Miguel Padilla ordered some of his native palms and pines shipped to the U. S. Upon arrival in Manhattan they were quarantined by Department of Agriculture agents, sent on to Washington for inspection. From Washington last week, the Department of Agriculture ruled that Padilla must ship his exhibits back to Chile, the exhibition meanwhile having closed several weeks ago and the plants having died...
Died. Russell Benjamin Harrison, 82, only son of 23rd President Benjamin Harrison and great-grandson of 9th President William Henry Harrison; in Indianapolis. He was successively an engineer, U. S. Assay Office superintendent, cattle rancher, journalist (Judge), lawyer and Mexican consul at Indianapolis...
...Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations between Ambassador and Counselor soon cooled to the extent that John Wiley was transferred to Antwerp as Consul General. But the distress of Ambassador Bullitt was not so easily ended. There was not a single U. S.-born wife among the career men on his staff. Beset by thoughts of tattling tongues and divided loyalties, he complained to his good friend President Roosevelt that his staff dinners resembled League...
Tales were told of hunters who had been beaten, of other strange disappearances among men who had trespassed on the King Ranch. The Mexican consul at Brownsville suggested that the Rangers also look for two Mexicans, Jesus Rivera and Reyes Ramirez, who were last seen months ago walking into the King Ranch to hunt. But the Blantons were white men and citizens. Rangers were kept as busy disarming posses as scouring miles & miles of the King Ranch...