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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded...
...last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will...
While Brazilian Consul-General Sebastaio Sampaio did his best to soothe with fine words New York's unruly coffee market, President Washington Luis Pereira de Souza of Brazil struggled in Rio de Janeiro with a coffee crisis twice as acute, infinitely more ominous...
Working like a beaver President Luis strove to avert catastrophe. Timorous coffee brokers announced that the coffee exchanges of Santos and Rio de Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market...
...possibility that, if the demand warrants it, there will be a third performance, on the evening of December 4, W. B. Cowan Jr. '29, production manager for two years as an undergraduate, will coach the plays. He will also play the part of Monsteur le Pic in 'Poll de Carotte...