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Most of the equipment now used by the Mexican Army was bought prior to 1911, when President Porfirio Diaz resigned and General Francisco Madero was elected...
...Abyssinia, they came to naught. He returned to the U. S. and had a home at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., still maintaining his interests in Mexico. In 1903 he had married Ida Lefferts Sherwood, and at his death left her and four sons, Guillermo Enrique, Jr., Carlos Sherwood, Porfirio Diaz and Sherwood. His death leaves few men living who have played so gaily, freely for the stakes of business and statecraft -Zaharoff and d'Annunzio, perhaps...
Augustin Sanchez, editor of El Radical of Leon, was shot four times, but not seriously wounded, by Dr. Rafael Ayon. Dr. Santos Abella, editor of La Information, newspaper of the town of Bluefields, was shot to death by Adolfo Orteza Diaz. By these means Nicaraguans resent "defamatory remarks...
Until twelve years ago, when wild-eyed Madero unhoused the venerable Diaz, Mexico was just a place for foreign money to go and make more money. Madero started a series of rattling revolutions which lasted until the assassination of Carranza...
...home of Jean François Millet at Barbizon, France, where he "lived the simple life" in a chestnut forest with the rest of the famous Barbizon Group (Corot, Rousseau, Diaz, Harpignies) 50 years ago, has been restored by two of his pupils at their own expense, and will be opened to the public as a memorial. The simple life was no affectation for the peasant Millet. Often he and his wife did not eat, but gave the little food that they had to their children. Today, if Millet were alive, he could easily maintain a yacht from royalties...