Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. James Weldon Johnson is a 55-year-old product of Jacksonville, Fla. He attended Atlanta, Columbia and Howard Universities, taught school a while, then entered the musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...
...clock. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, will act as toastmaster, while the speakers will include Professor G. B. Weston '11, of the department of Romance Languages in the University. Dr. C. M. Underwood '05, one of the founders of the Circolo, and the Marquis Ferrante di Ruffano, Royal Italian Consul at Boston...
...President accepted the resignation of Dr. J. Morton Howell of Dayton, Ohio, as Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Egypt. Owing to ill health of Mrs. Howell, Dr. Howell had twice before presented unaccepted resignations. He was born in Uniopolis, Ohio, in 1863; in 1921 became Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, has been Minister to Egypt since...
Asked about the influence on his poetry of his sojourn in Boston (1894)-as a young vice consul, he said...
...Consul General Jose Riching of Uruguay deplored the riot with these words: "The boys do nicely, keeping their tempers under control until they are either losing the game or are pressing the other team. Then they act under the impression that the referee is working against them...