Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Ludwig Hassell, his wife, daughter and dog, by the Brooklyn. Six men had disappeared. They were all Norwegians: a donkeyman, two firemen, a deckhand, an able-bodied seaman, a trimmer. Newspaper presses roared. The rescued told their different stories. Cables flashed from New York to Paris. The Norwegian consul started an investigation. The captain of the Brooklyn denied that his men did not know how to lower the boats. In the high towers of Manhattan people lay listening to the sad horns, like hounds, belling a far-away triumph...
Supplementing Mr. J. E. La Dow's suggestion contained in his letter published in your issue No. 14 [TIME, Oct. 3], that Consul General Curtis be requested to resign in the absence of an explanation, satisfactory to Mr. La Dow, of why he permitted himself to be photographed in the vicinity of that dread beverage-beer, it would be splendid to appoint Mr. La Dow a censor of the habits and morals of Americans traveling abroad. In performing the pious functions of that position, meticulously as his intense but individual patriotism would dictate, he could incidentally be charged with...
...honest and no doubt sincere zeal, would be interested probably to learn that Consul General Curtis never drinks beer, and mayhap was distinctly embarrassed by being pushed into the picture as a member of the Brock-Schlee reception committee in the interest of American aviation to view the stein-clicking proclivities of Messrs. Brock and Schlee who no doubt thoroughly enjoy beer-drinking in jurisdictions where it is not a crime. If an American representative abroad may not be permitted in the vicinity of alcoholic beverages nor witness drinking it would be necessary to withdraw all of our representatives, pending...
...conditions along the Yangtze Valley. The firing at Nanking on March 24 by U. S. and British men-of-war consisted solely of a barrage laid about a house on a hill overlooking the city wall and in plain view from the river. In this house were the American Consul, his family, and some 25 other Americans and British, and this besieged party was being attacked and rushed by Chinese soldiers intent upon murdering them. This barrage not only saved the lives of the people in this house, who afterwards escaped over the city wall, but with the first boom...
Eighth Day. Two dusty and unshaven men crawled from the cabin of the Pride of Detroit after she was wheeled into a hangar at the British Air Service Field at Karachi, India. They were greeted by a Sunday crowd; British officers; the American Consul. They reported the Pride functioning flawlessly, despite the heat...