Word: consulships
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...claims of Private Dalzell for a foreign consulship are being pushed as strongly as possible...
...into the consul's management of affairs, he determined to be precedent, and himself demanded an investigation, appealing to the fair-minded men and women of the city, and challenging to the proof any one who had any charge to make against the consul, touching his fitness for the consulship. The directorate appointed a committee of investigation. But at this point the consul seemed to retreat from the unfamiliar field of open contest, into the haze of secret sessions, and did all he could, through friends, to stifle an investigation...