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Last year Tenor Beniamino Gigli heard María Helena, invited her to sing Mimi with him at a charity performance in the Teatro Presidente Alvear. There, talentwise Cirilo Grassi Díaz, manager of the Teatro Colón, heard her, offered her a chance at the Colón this season...
...curb such barbarism, cried Supreme Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast of current opinion, a Pittsburgh electric supply house sent down a catalogue showing the latest thing in electric chairs...
...sixty-year-old Nicolás Rodriguez Díaz, on his farm in western Cuba, and to some 50,000 colonos (sugar planters) like him, it was startling news. At the cockfight in town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported...
Possibly, too, she planned a sphere-of-influence solution like the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which solved nothing. More likely was the less ambitious aim of a Communist-controlled, autonomous Az erbaijan with a pro-Soviet Government in Teheran. These would be enough to secure her exposed southern flank...
Mexico's generals, spawned by the Madero Revolution of 1911, which sent longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz scurrying to Paris, had multiplied with each succeeding revolt. Now the Mexican Army has so many generals that no one is able to count them accurately. Said a cynical Mexican official: "It is easier to count the soldiers...