Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other ministers: Minister of Foreign Affairs: Emiliano Figueroa, onetime Ambassador to Argentina. Justice and Instruction: Gregorio Amunategui, Rector of the University of Chile. War: General Bennett. Public Works: Angel Guarello, onetime Minister of Justice and at present the most prominent Democrat in the country. Thus did the Army officers accomplish by the pen what is usually undertaken in Latin America by the sword-a coup d'état. Not only this, they apparently received the plaudits of vast sections of the Chilean populace...
...Experts' Plan is now undergoing the inevitable but somewhat tiresome political formalities before being officially adopted. International finance can scarcely accomplish much until this has been done, and the German loan floated. Soon the publicity tom-toms should begin to beat, summoning U. S. investors to the lottery in European stocks and bonds. Many prize numbers will doubtless be drawn, also some utterly blank pieces of paper. The beginning of this interesting process, along with our own Presidential election, should at any rate lend entertainment to an Autumn whose business prospects are still thoroughly uncertain...
...government. It is to 'be tested by our Committee. . . . There should be no relaxing of resolute endeavors to keep our elections clean, honest and free from taint of any kind. Only the closest scrutiny, both of the sources of contributions and the character of expenditures, can accomplish this laudable purpose. For the first time, this has been provided for the coming campaign through the appointment of a competent Senate Committee vested with ample authority. . . . The statutes provide for publication of the names of contributors and of amounts contributed. But a deficit at the end of the campaign in part...
...present at all, should have been present as an equal among equals. When, but yesterday, three Americans went to the Conference on Reparations, whose fruitful outcome all the world desires, Washington was prompt to disclaim all responsibility for their going though eager to take credit for whatever they might accomplish. We must face the humiliating fact that we have a government that does not dare to speak its mind beyond the three mile limit...
When the blood in a man's body becomes fouled, it may be possible to remove and wash it, like linen. A remarkable device to accomplish this is being perfected by Dr. John J. Abel, distinguished pharmacologist of Johns Hopkins University. It is, in effect, an artificial kidney, an external laundry for the blood. The purpose of the apparatus is to extract foreign substances and mineral poisons from the circulation by tapping one of the large arteries, passing the blood through a purifier, and returning it to the heart by reinjection in a vein...