Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pivot Point. Roman Catholics still loudly protest the injustices done to their brethren in Mexico, but U. S. financial interests there became quietly expectant, recently, when it was found that Mexican tax revenues were falling below a point at which Señor Calles could meet the payments due to Manhattan bankers on the Mexican national debt...
That point-money, dollars, pesos-is the pivot around which President Calles has swung away from Mexican ideals of retroactive confiscation and toward U. S. ideals of justice for U. S. interests in Mexico. Once justice was done, once Lower Manhattan was appeased, it would be possible to tide over the Mexican debt payments...
...telephone messages when the intended recipient does not answer the telephone. Constructed on the principle of a dictaphone, the device establishes a connection after the signal has sounded, then it sounds a signal to indicate that a device, not a person, is ready to receive any desired message. This done, the message is recorded and punched out upon paper. Then, when the time limit set by its owner has expired, the device breaks the connection...
...longer does the voice of God, as it is reputed once to have done, drum across the sky in the sound of storm or make a friendly whisper in the wilderness. Angels come to earth no more and the night is never filled now with the strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone...
...there is little room for luxury. Only Arthur Brisbane is pampered. The famed concoctor of editorial paragraphs has a private library, dressing room, shower bath, should he be too busy for those luxuries in his tall Ritz Tower. But even in his spacious suite the desks, where work is done, are made of metal. No New Year's work was done on them; Mr. Brisbane far from Manhattan as he often is, wrote paragraphs from a desert in California...