Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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''We bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke."
Confidential Engineer. The Hoover of Mexico was born at Morelia, capital of the State of Michoacan in 1877 of a rich, aristocratic family who trace their descent back to 1545. He graduated with an engineer's degree from the University of Mexico, entered the Army, was gazetted Captain in...
Silent Howls. Soon after the Hoover of Mexico was elected he received an invitation to visit the U. S. from Thomas W. Lament, Chairman of the International Committee of Bankers concerned with Mexico's unpaid foreign debt. At that time Señor Ortiz Rubio told correspondents he had...
Finance Minister Luiz Montes de Oca's budget for the next Mexican year was recently published. He plans to pay the International Bankers an installment of 26,000,000 pesos ($13,000,000) on what is owed them, whereas in 1929 they received $17,000,000, and the year...
After conferring the galerum rubrum (red hat) and cappa magna (Cardinal's cloak) on the six new Cardinals named last month (TIME, Dec. 2), His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week published an encyclical letter to the Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal...