Word: fors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The anti-re-electionists were speaking figuratively, sarcastically. There was an election last week, in which 19 Mexicans were killed, 23 wounded, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, government-supported candidate, was elected by a reputed majority of 700,000 to serve as President for the remaining four years, nine months and...
Gunfire commenced early. Mexico's election law provides, apparently in an effort to improve the shooting, that the first nine citizens who succeed in registering at a voting booth are thereby constituted the election board for the day. By noon hundreds of Mexican voting booths were wrecked, most of the...
The Significance, to U. S. observers, of the election lay in the firmly entrenched position of the National Revolutionary Party, the party of ex-President Calles, "provisional" President-elect Ortiz Rubio, suave engineer. Prophets foresaw no major change in Mexican-U. S. official relations for at least four years, nine...
Top price at the Civic Repertory is only $1.50. The audience always contains many sheerly personal admirers of Directrix Le Gallienne, including mannish-looking women in suits tailored like hers and carrying canes. But these are minor causes for the Repertory's success. The major significance of the theatre is...
Her first U. S. part, given her by Director Harrison Grey ("Mr. Minnie Maddern") Fiske was that of a Negro maid in Mrs. Boltay's Daughters. She acted hither and yon until Arthur Richman's sweetish comedy Not So Long Ago remained on Broadway for two seasons. Two greater successes...