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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angel Gallardo expressed his "amazement," and President de Alvear openly flayed Senor Pueyrredon for "such conduct." Both knew that with an Argentine presidential election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
Highest reasons of state caused Premier Raymond Nicholas Landry Poincaré to speed, last week, from Paris to Strasbourg. Though the city is chiefly famed for producing pâtés de foie gras and as the place where La Marseillaise was composed, Strasbourg loomed last week exclusively as the political focus of Alsace-Lorraine...
...Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at Vienna. Thus the League would save itself the expense of building a new headquarters at Geneva to replace the present ramshackle Secretariat and the mouldering Salle de la Reformation (where the Assembly sits). Reputedly the League has considered spending ?1,000,000 on its proposed new buildings and most of that could be saved by moving to Vienna...
...bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink, of Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan, Meister singer...
Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. (De luxe taxicabs; luxurious private motors) lost $783,200. In 1926 the company earned $1,267,684. Reassuring the stockholders, President M. E. Forbes wrote: "Your company carried on the year's operations without any bank loans...