Word: consulates
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...fire engine, now in the Museum of the City of New York), the Democratic Donkey and Republican Elephant. No other U. S. cartoonist has ever equaled his power, the strength of his line. Out of fashion for ten years before he died, he accepted the post of U. S. consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador from President Roosevelt, died at his post of yellow fever. Last week Critic Henry McBride had this to say of his exhibition...
Alighting at Naval Headquarters extremely vexed, Mr. Robison tried to lodge complaint, was pushed in the chest by a Japanese civilian wearing a police armband who shouted: "I am a Japanese. Don't!" Previously the Japanese Consul General had given official assurances that there were now no more Japanese "armband police" in Shanghai, but four of them set upon Mr. Robison, striking him with their fists while Japanese bluejackets laughed...
...told Miss Marlowe, "after you tell me your name and nationality." These facts he entered in a notebook. Miss Marlowe went?from Shanghai to Hongkong (British). Naturally all the Consuls General at Shanghai protested to the Japanese Consul General but in the capitals of the Great Power, there was exhibited none of that spirit which the late Theodore Roosevelt, the late Georges Clemenceau or Queen Victoria used to exhibit when one of their nationals was set upon abroad...
...years ago last week, the yacht Ohio dropped anchor in the harbor of Monrovia, Liberia. Her owner, Edward Wyllis Scripps, a big bristly-bearded man of 72 for whom the yacht had been Home for four years, had the U. S. Consul aboard to dine with him. After the consul had gone ashore "Old Man" Scripps felt suddenly, terribly, weary. "Too many cigars this evening, I guess," he mumbled. He sank into unconsciousness and in a few minutes his weak old heart ceased to beat...
...Imperial Government's protests as best it could-one of the best ways being to point out that Japanese Marines have ransacked U. S. premises in Shanghai repeatedly, have never found the "Chinese snipers" they claimed to be looking for, and have never asked the U. S. Consul General to issue a warrant. Obviously, from both the Japanese and U. S. points of view, to ask for a warrant is to tip off the Consul General who, if anything really is amiss, will tip off his own countrymen who are on the point of being raided...