Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indictments were part of an investigation of the supposed smuggling operations of Albert L. Chaperau, self-styled member of the Nicaraguan Consular Service and allegedly an international smuggler...
...such widely separated nations the good-willers necessarily had to pass through other countries, including England and the U. S. To 25 Manchukuoan glad-handers, British and U. S. consular authorities last week had readily granted visas. But neither Britain nor the U. S. would grant the honorable Mr. Amakasu even a transit visa. To Britain a murderer is still an "undesirable alien." to the U. S. a murderer is still guilty of "moral turpitude," to both a murderer is a murderer...
...famed Negro educator, author (Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), champion of Negro rights; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; in Wiscasset, Me. Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1916-30), he was also the first Negro to hold a consular post (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela); only Negro in the U. S. ever to command a naval detachment (Nicaragua 1912) ; first Negro baseball pitcher to throw a curve...
Asked about the Foreign Service examinations for the consular service. Arnold declared that good English and clear literary style are becoming more important every year, rather than command of many foreign languages...
...approve it. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull solved his puzzle neatly in two simultaneous notes to the German Government. Note No. 1 recognized the annexation, stated that the U. S. "finds itself under the necessity as a practical measure" of closing its Vienna legation and appointing a consular staff in its place. Net result, since the U. S. ministry in Austria was vacant anyway, was that John C. Wiley will stay on as consul general. Excerpt from Note No. 2: "I have to notify the German Government that the . . . United States will look to it for the discharge...