Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal couple will arrive in the United States on June 27, according to the report. If the consular officials expect him to get his degree at Commencement, they will be surprised, more than somewhat, since Commencement is on June...
...last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before becoming a poultry farmer on the Castilian plateau...
...meantime he had acquired a promising reputation by serving with special American delegations abroad and at one period was made charge d'affaires in Switzerland. Rumor had him slated for a minister's post. Last year he went to Beirut, Syria for experience in the consular service. Friends in Paris feared the Syrian climate would be bad for his health...
Meanwhile the only immediate result of the promiscuous slaughter in Shanghai was that Japanese diplomatic and consular offices were ordered evacuated from China's capital, Nanking. No one in Tokyo, however, would admit that this presaged a formal declaration of war, a technical gesture now outmoded because it is apt to lead to international complications and to charges that treaties have been broken...
...this demotion toward the merrier but less distinguished end of the toast list, Manuel Quezon maintained a dignified silence. But the Filipino-owned Philippines Herald angrily took up his cause, snorted: ''A diplomatic crisis is brewing. Commonwealth dignitaries may decline to attend consular parties. . . . Used to high-riding the political prairies of Indiana with State troops at his beck, McNutt must feel suffocated in the close quarters the Philippine Independence Act allows him. If he conceives it his duty to enlarge American authority in the Philippines despite growing Filipino autonomy, he is certain to encounter difficulties...