Word: consular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illustrious men came to Kirk Bramwith for the unveiling. J. G. Groeninger, an American in the consular service, drew aside the Union Jack which covered the window. Captain the Rev. R. Whincup, the village rector, stood under the Stars & Stripes to read a message from the King. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Ernest Brown made a speech. General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saluted the village spirit...
...laid down thus far, the mechanics of control are manifold. Already the consular and diplomatic service is being revised to place expert market analysts over the world. From them the national factory would learn continuously what the world wants to buy, in approximate quantities. Haphazard manufacture would be eliminated. Workers would be shifted as the need arises. Imports would be watched to see that not too much of the nation's payroll goes for luxuries. Manufacturers in financial straits would be helped by tax money when advisable...
Last week he set about modernizing his Foreign Office-issued a Government White Paper proposing long-needed reforms to British diplomacy. Hereafter the diplomatic, commercial and consular services will be combined in a single foreign service. New recruits will be chosen by competitive examination. Those passing will be given an 18-month traveling scholarship to study languages and history abroad. (Said Liberal M.P. Vernon Bartlett: "It will no longer be almost essential to have a silver spoon in one's mouth when one is born or an old-school tie when one is adolescent...
...went off at once to college in Beloit, Wis., where he is remembered as one of the loudest debaters in college history. At 20, after graduating from the University of Michigan and getting a law degree at George Washington University, young MacPhail turned down an appointment to the French consular service. At 25 he was president of a Nashville department store. In Nashville, MacPhail met Luke Lea, who, at 38, had already founded the Nashville Tennessean and served as a U.S. Senator. When the U.S. entered World War I, Lea and MacPhail organized a volunteer regiment of back-country Tennessee...
These reports buzzed around for a couple of months, while special investigators, the FBI and consular agents looked up old records, passed along clues, checked two passports, one Swedish, one U.S. Last week the blonde was still in Rio, still as flashy in the nightclubs and cocktail bars as she had been in Mexico. But, pshaw, she was only old Peter Fahrney's granddaughter, Merry ("the Madcap"), from Chicago. Remember, she got married half a dozen times or so? Playboys and counts and barons-calls herself the Countess Cassini now. No more harm in her than in the cough...