Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coins were first minted under Louis XIII, but take their name from Napoleon I, who put his own portrait on them when he was consul. For most of the past century they have displayed a republican rooster, but "napoleons" they remain...
...week's end violence claimed the first American life on Cyprus. Terrorists tossed two bombs into a tiny Nicosia restaurant, killed U.S. Vice Consul William P. Boteler, 26, wounded three other American members of the consular staff in Nicosia as they sat at dinner...
Early Habit. The youngest (he is now 56) and most bookish of the Eisenhower brothers, Milton had already acquired the habit of success. After graduating from Kansas State College with a B.S. in journalism, he served as a U.S. vice consul two years in Scotland, later became special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture under Calvin Coolidge. At 28 he was made the department's director of information. He stayed on even after Henry Wallace took over, rose through a succession of posts culminated by the associate directorship of OWI during the first years of World War II. Then...
James Russell Lowell to England and Hawthorne as consul in Liverpool. The Robber Barons, who were the modern Medici, imported European treasures by the boatload, but Henry Adams found America "mortgaged to the railways." Henry James fled to Europe, and in 1913 Ezra Pound gloomily wrote of America's artists: "O helpless few in my country, 0 remnant enslaved...
...would like to congratulate you on the splendid April 2 article on Ambassador Angus Ward, sometime U.S. Consul General in Kenya. Having had the pleasure of knowing him, I would like to say that he was one of the finest "genuine" gentlemen one could ever hope to meet, and a wonderful ambassador for his great country. During his term in Nairobi Mr. Ward did not have a "bearded Korean hen," but he did have two most impressive long-legged Manchurian cats which were very important members of the Ward household. When Mr. Ward finally left Nairobi for his new post...