Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boris Karloff, an Englishman born Charles Edward Pratt 47 years ago, is fond of pipes, tweeds, tea, cricket and golf. Member of a civil service family, he gave up studying for a consular post to go to Canada as an actor. It took him 14 years acting bit parts to get a full-size role in Hollywood...
...sleep. Was he a U. S. citizen? No, he was a British citizen who had resided 40 years in the U. S. How long had he been away? Seventeen months. Did he not know that an alien who left the country for more than six months must have a consular visa to return? Messrs. Johnson and Ryan angrily intervened. They protested, they waved their extradition papers, they pointed at President Roosevelt's signature, they refused to let Inspector Als have their prisoner...
...President signed a bill authorizing U. S. consular agents in countries where the U. S. has extraterritorial rights, to arrest and send home any U. S. citizen wanted on criminal charges at home. Thus by acting speedily the President and Congress won a race with the slow-moving freighter Maiotis, still maundering last week somewhere in the Mediterranean with its lone passenger. Henceforth Samuel Insull cannot safely land in such countries as China, Egypt, Morocco. ¶ To Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, the President sent a letter last week advocating passage of a bill taxing...
...splendid opportunity in the Russian service. We have only 32 men in the whole service who speak the Russian language, and they are in great demand. In the next two or three years, there will be opportunities for one or two hundred trained men in this branch of the consular department...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia has indeed had an explosive career. Born on Manhattan's Varick Street 51 years ago, he grew up at Army posts. His father, a bandmaster, died of embalmed beef at Tampa during the Spanish-American War. When he was 20, Fiorello got into the consular service, serving at Budapest, Trieste and Fiume. A row over immigrant inspection sent him back to Ellis Island, where he was interpreter until 1910, when he began to practice law. He went to Congress on the Republican ticket in 1917, took a leave of absence when the War broke...