Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking pale and slightly shattered after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's...
"No amount of evidence will convince me," said he, "that my government would deliberately invest with diplomatic immunity a fugitive from justice for the foul purpose of enabling him to evade arrest."
To counteract untactful Attorney Vails., Laredo businessmen held an official welcome for Señor Calles when he passed through their city on his return to Mexico.
"We Mexicans," said he at a luncheon of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce "those of us who love the United States know that this is the school for Mexicans."
Presumably more bootleggers than good-will crossed the border between the U. S. and Canada last week. Reason: on one side were ranked the newspaper publishers of the U. S. who are accustomed to purchase their newsprint (newspaper paper) almost entirely from Canadian manufacturers at wholesale prices averaging about $55...