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...short speech in which President Ortiz Rubio outlined his policies, explained how dear to the United States of Mexico are the United States of America, and the ceremony was over. A dapper young man in a neat black suit by the name of Daniel Flores left the stadium in disgust. Cameramen tripped over Congressmen in their efforts to snap President Ortiz Rubio publicly kissing ex-President Fortes Gil. Telegraphers in the press section clicked wordy comment on the stability of Mexico's new government, wired that at last a Mexican President had been inaugurated without bloodshed or attempted assassination...
Directly as a result of popular discon tent and army disgust at the bloody Morocco fiasco, the then Captain General of Catalonia, Primo de Rivera, marched upon Madrid in 1923 with the "confidence" of his fellow military satraps and? it is generally believed?the connivance of the King. His Majesty thought in 1923 and continued to think last week that extra-Constitutional methods would best bulwark his Throne...
Thoroughgoing disgust with the Comptroller's office in the handling of the scrubwomen affair is now the only feeling possible for a large mass of Harvard men. Seldom in recent years has the University received so much undesirable publicity as it has over the fact that it was apparently underpaying the cleaning women in Widener Library. Daily papers throughout the whole United States have made scare-head scandal stories of the matter, weekly journals of opinion have run scathing editorials and searing special articles, organizations so far removed as the California League of Women Voters have issued special manifestoes. Harvard...
...settled at law by the peoples' representatives, is still a mooted point in the minds of the people themselves, in the face of such confusion as surrounds the Eighteenth Amendment, it is not to be wondered if the reaction of undergraduates towards the whole business is one of thorough disgust...
Chief reason for the flight of Vasil Radoslavoff was his connection with fox-bearded German Tsar Ferdinand. In 1923, Peasant-Prime Minister Stamboulisky was overthrown by a coup d'état and assassinated while trying to escape. Disgust with Stamboulisky brought renewed respect for Radoslavoff. People forgot that he had been prosecuted for corrupt practices before...