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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denied repeatedly that he is in the U. S. to seek refinancing of the debt. En route he stopped off for lunch with Mr. Lamont in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 23), and after seeing President Hoover in Washington will return to Wall Street. If Finance Minister Luiz Montes de Oca should hasten from Mexico City to be in New York at that time, and several correspondents have predicted that he will, the weather would be getting thick indeed. At least the President-Elect has come straight to headquarters, cannot be accused of taking a correspondence course in what...
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 before $16,250,000. This drastic reduction is accounted for by the Mexican Government's enormous expenditures in putting down the Escobar Revolution and the consequent depletion of Treasury funds. As a Mexican satiric weekly said: "The bankers are silently howling for more money...
Paris correspondents with nothing much to do sauntered around to the dingy Hospice de la Salpétrière last week and dug a choice little story out of Professor Jean Antonin Gosset, famed remover of the prostate glands of Georges Clémenceau (1912) and Raymond Poincaré who left the hospital and strode spryly home last week (TIME...
...Franklin and Voltaire: when Ben presented his grandson to the philosopher and asked for a blessing, Voltaire "blessed him in the name of God and Liberty. None in the audience could restrain their tears. Love was such a pressing need in the 18th Century! They had forgotten that Monsieur de Voltaire had scarcely any faith in Liberty and none...
...Author. Bernard Faÿ, 36, unmarried, was born in Paris, has taken all possible French professorial degrees, is Professor in the Faculty of Letters in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature...