Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear 16 witnesses, subpoenaed duces tecum (bring your books and papers). All that transpired was that the proceedings had nothing to do with the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases. The witnesses were an entirely different group from that which was examined by the Senatorial Committees (TIME, May 12 et seq.). The new investigation is supposed to have something to do with the Mexia oil field in Texas...
...Umberto of Italy, having been feted with royal ceremonies by Argentina (TIME, Aug. 18), departed for Brazil, where he was to have been accorded a royal welcome in the gay capital of Rio de Janeiro. This plan was mutilated, however, by the recent Sao Paulo revolt (TIME, July 14 et seq.), and the chances of the Prince's being assassinated if he landed were thought to 'be so great that President A. da Silva Bernardes requested him to remain upon his warship, where President and Government are to pay him homage...
...revealing, in the present, a rift within the Labor Party and, in the future, the shoals of dangerous commercial enmity. His utterance, issued in that sharp, rasping voice that verges upon the disagreeable, implicated the Free Trade platform upon which Labor stood at the last election (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.), and gave shape to a political crisis that may, some predicted, involve the country in a general election next December...
General Higenio Aguilar, 90-year-old revolutionary veteran, surrendered to the Federal authorities. This venerable Mexican gentleman boasts that he has taken part in all the major revolts during the past 65 years, including the de la Huerta revolt (TIME Dec. 10 et seq.). It was not thought that he would be executed...
Having disposed of the Far East, the British Labor Movement, Population, International Finance, the Experts' Plan, the League, Japanese Immigration, Pan-Americanism, the Statesmen (amateur and professional) of Williamstown (TIME, July 28 et seq.) focussed their mentalities upon other problems. It was the fourth, and semifinal, week of their Institute of International Politics...