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Hunting for Col. P. H. Fawcett, who disappeared in the Matto Grosso four years ago, has become almost a profession in itself. Alexander Siemel, now at the southwestern edge of the great forest, was a onetime Fawcett searcher. His onetime companions in the jungle were Mamerto Urriolagoitia. Bolivian consul general at London, and Julian Duguid (Green Hell). As soon as Consul Urriolagoitia gets his vacation from London this summer he will join Author Duguid for another search of the forest...
...MacMillan will make his annual skirt of Labrador and Baffin Land, this time with a flotilla of three boats. Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape...
After this foundation has been well laid, the special aptitudes of the young officer are taken into account. Special skill in trade promotion and protection, in office organization and in economic analysis will lead to the high places of Consul General in London, in Paris, in Shanghai, or Buenos Aires. On the other hand, special talent for drafting, tact in negotiation and just estimation of political situations would be recognized by work on international conferences and the positions of Counselor of Charge d'Affaires in great capitals. From either branch the President may select Ministers and Ambassadors, and there...
When he wanted to take his family abroad, he was given the agreeable post of Consul at Lyons, with no duties, some privileges. The Coopers stayed abroad seven years, got back to the U. S. to find times had moved. Cooper became didactic, not to say cantankerous. "His view of the world . . . had ceased to be genial. He disliked many things, and disliked them more each year-reviewers, Yankees, newspapers, kings. Englishmen, mobs, national timidity and national complacency. And there steadily grew upon him a taste for laying down the law." Editors made libelous fun of him; he sued...
...graduates are pursuing the line of work in which they were trained." Graduates whom his Institute views with satisfaction include: William Henry Holtzclaw (born in Roanoke, Ala.), founder and principal of Utica Normal and Industrial School at Utica, Miss.; James G. Carter (born in Brunswick, Ga.), U. S. Consul in Calais, France; C. C. Alleyne (born in the West Indies), Bishop of the New York district of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Thomas M. Campbell, who received last January one of the Harmon awards ($400 and a gold medal) in Farming & Rural Life...