Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington considered Ralph James Totten, Consul-General at Cape Town, as a likely U. S. Minister to South Africa...
...normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly, and who, by whispers, were soon identified as Thomas Alva Edison himself, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Repercussions of the Russo-Chinese crisis were felt even at Sam W. Gumpertz's Chinese Chamber of Horrors ("Eden Musée") on Coney Island. In gruesome attitudes of opium smoking, flagellation and beheading, Mr. Gumpertz's waxworks Chinamen thrill goggle-eyed gumchewers. Last week Chinese Consul-General Samuel Sung Young, fearing that such exhibits might prejudice China's case in the U. S., appealed against Mr. Gumpertz to Manhattan's Mayor Walker who promised to investigate. Mr. Gumpertz said the most he would do would be to hang up NOW ABOLISHED signs...
Died. William Treyanne Francis, 59, of St. Paul, Minn., U. S. Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia, only Negro Minister in the U. S. foreign service; in Monrovia; of yellow fever...
Resigned. Miss Pattie Field, U. S. Vice Consul at Amsterdam; to join the sales force of National Broadcasting...