Word: consular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amendment reserves to the states and the people powers not otherwise delegated to the Federal Government. Tested against that provision alone, it is possible that more than 30% of the treaties made by the U.S. since 1789 might be ruled invalid. Our basic treaties of friendship and commerce, our consular conventions, extradition treaties, migratory bird treaties, road traffic conventions and narcotics control treaties might run afoul of the new wording. In any event, their validity might be put under a cloud for a number of years. These treaties are the lifeblood of our relationships with other friendly nations. They deal...
...used black oxidized bronze for a decorative frieze of state seals between the first and second floors and for a great seal of the U.S. above the main entrance. The final result is a U-shaped building that will house the embassy staff in the center, USIS and consular offices in either wing, and shelter a formal garden court (over an underground garage). Londoners generally were enthusiastic. Wrote the architectural correspondent of London's Times: "A welcome acquisition to the rapidly changing face of Mayfair...
...communication between them and Moscow." Consul General N. V. Ivanov denied (as the Communists always do) any subversive activity, but freely admitted another charge leveled by the Union government : that Negroes, who can not buy or be given liquor in South Africa, had been served vodka at Russian consular parties...
...every 26 days. Of the 214,000 visas authorized by the act, 38,583 have been granted. Administrator McLeod confidently predicts that a total of some 160,000 visas will be issued. In Germany and Austria, more than 3,000 visas are now being granted monthly. In Italy, U.S. consular officials are issuing 124 visas every working day, enough to fill Italy's quota two months ahead of the act's deadline...
With Khrushchev also in the party, there could be no doubt, as Bulganin told a U.S. consular official, that the talks would be "at the very summit." The American answered that he did not think that one delegation member was at the highest level. Quick as a flash, Bulganin asked, "You mean Zhukov?" And then, without even hinting at the possibility that the Communists hope to capitalize on Marshal Zhukov's old-soldier friendship with Dwight Eisenhower, he set out to justify Zhukov's inclusion. "How can questions of disarmament be solved without him?" asked Bulganin. "Zhukov might...