Word: sheddan
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...Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, brought along maps of China, laid them out in the Lincoln Study. The President and his advisers hunched over them, talked in low voices. Before President Hoover was a request from U. S. Consul General Edwin Sheddan Cunningham at Shanghai for more protection for U. S. citizens there...
...Large, deep-voiced Edwin Sheddan Cunningham was born in Sevier County, Tenn. 64 years ago Once a mail clerk, he worked in a publishing house for a while, entered the Consular Service in 1898. He has remained in the Far East ever since, is now dean of foreign consuls in Shanghai, known even before the crisis as "the most difficult post in the consular service...
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