Word: vice-consul
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...Malaya as a rubber planter. There he was defeated by the fever and soon sought new vigor in the Canadian Rockies. Refreshed by his stay in North America, he returned to London where he passed a civil service examination which led to his appointment as his Majesty's vice-consul at Moscow. This was Indeed a minor post in tranquil 1912. Today the author recalls how pleasing Russia was to him with its carefree days when many a morning he saw the dawn break over the old Kremlin after a gay night in Moscow. His happy-go-lucky spirit...
...that scrape, sent him home to his outraged family. For lack of something better to do he took the examinations for the Foreign Office and passed at the head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked and got on well with Russia, Russian and Russians, had a high old time in Moscow, saw many a dawn break over the Kremlin. When he married an Australian girl he turned over a new leaf-for a while. Then rumors of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess reached...
...Nelson Cromwell, who has the curious distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor; and Art Benefactor and Philanthropist Edward Tuck. As a man and as a resident of Paris, Philanthropist Tuck, 88, is senior of the three. He first went to Paris in 1864 as vice-consul, appointed by Abraham Lincoln. His friends know that he is the least Parisian of the three, that he still looks and talks like a complete New Englander. Edward Tuck was born in Exeter, N. H., the son of Congressman-Banker Amos Tuck, traditionally the man who picked the name...
Married. Charles Jacob Young, son of Owen D. Young, chairman of the late successful Reparations Conference in Paris (see p. 14); and Esther Marie Christensen, Cleveland Junior Leaguer, daughter of Niels Anthon Christensen, Danish vice-consul and airbrake inventor; in Cleveland...
...Charles Jacob Young of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric employe, Wartime ambulance driver and aviator, eldest son of General Electric's Board Chairman Owen D. Young; to Esther Marie Christensen of Cleveland, Junior League poetess and black-and-white artist, daughter of Niels Anton Christensen, airbrake inventor, Danish vice-consul...