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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover sentiments seemed calculated to soothe the social temper of Argentina as he had found it. After touching upon the civic splendors he had been shown, he asked permission "to sound a convincing note of faith and hope in the future of humanity." He described himself to his hearers: "It has been no part of mine to build castles of the future but rather to measure the experiments, the actions and the progress of men through the cold and uninspiring microscope of fact, statistics and performance." Then he said he really believed that "the Western World stands upon the threshold...
...house in a Buenos Aires side-street, two young men and two young women had been found with seven bombs, many firearms and a map of the railway by which the Hoover party approached. They were anarchists and proud of it. Police collared them and kept watch on all other known radicals in the city. Hundreds of guards were deployed throughout the station. Hundreds more policed 100,000 of the populace, massed in the station plaza...
Some 150 Manhattan speakeasies paid Down-Shaker Harris some $25,000 over a period of several weeks. He played the game at both ends, often telephoning to local Prohibition headquarters to "squeal" on proprietors he had found obdurate...
Murder. Some of the Park Central's guests thought they heard a shot. A taxi-driver thought he heard another cab backfire. Anyway, Rothstein was found inside a locked service entrance on the ground floor of the Park Central, staggering, with a bullet in his groin. He declined to say where or by whom he had been shot. He soon died. Outside the hotel, a discharged gun was found, dented by a fall of perhaps three stories...
...house" are in charge of the students themselves, delegating their authority to the presidents of the four classes, who are advised and assisted by the three members of the faculty. The students take the management of their dormitory quite seriously, and no disciplinary action has so far been found necessary because of infringement of the self-imposed regulations...