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Wrote Secretary of State Stimson to Richard Louis Sprague, U. S. Consul at Gibraltar: "Hearty felicitations on the occasion of the completion of 100 years' service of the Sprague family as American Consul at Gibraltar. . . . There is no other such record. . . ." Other Gibraltar Spragues: Horatio, Boston shipping merchant, who served 16 years; Horatio Jones, 53 years. The present Sprague has been Consul since...
Strassburger Prize Sirs: A jury composed of Professor Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Jakob Wassermann, representing the German branch of the Strassburger Foundation has awarded the annual prize of the Foundation for 1932 to Walther Reinhardt, German Consul in Seattle, Wash., for his book George Washington, published in Frankfurt am Rhein. The object of the Strassburger Foundation is to further good relations between the U. S. and several European countries. It has branches in France, Germany, Austria and Hungary. Its French jury is composed of Andre Maurois, M. Francois-Poncet, French Ambassador to Berlin, and others. Annual prizes...
...American Consul Bergen, Norway...
...situation is, that a female missionary, who has been captured by a Chinese general with a pretty taste for virgins, casts desperately about to find someone she can claim as husband and thus secure her release. A British consul, acting as her agent, obtains for a fee the signature of a Scotch sailor who happens to be in the Shanghai jail. A later divorce is promised, and as neither party has seen the other, the sailor imagines his wife to be a straight-laced old maid; while the missionary assumes that her savior is a lecherous young jack...
Coincidence brushed remote points in the North Atlantic one day last week. 1) The crew of a Dutch trawler fished from the water near the Orkney Islands a package containing the papers of an American, turned it over to the U. S. Consul at Amsterdam. The papers proved to be the pilot's license, passport and permit of Parker ("Shorty") Cramer who was lost with Radioman Louis Oliver Pacquette last fall while flying a transatlantic survey from Detroit to Europe, via Greenland and Iceland, for Transamerican Airlines Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). 2) While the consul was scanning the papers...