Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rules of procedure allow the Board to meet anywhere in Europe, though they must gather at least four times a year in the Bank headquarters at Basle. Monthly statements and an annual report must be made public...
...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 23 days of the six-year term of assassinated president-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...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 others triumphantly occupied by Ortiz Rubistas. In Mexico City an automobileful of machine gunners swept past a mass meeting of disconsolate Vasconcelistas, killed four, wounded eight. In Vera Cruz, Vasconcelistas took their revenge by lynching a man by the name of Lopez...
...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 months, 23 days...
...back in repertory. Then there is a half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going to her dressing room for the evening's appearance. For efficiency's sake she lives on the roof of her theatre, with her four dogs and several canaries. The predominant color of the menage and all that is Le Gallienne?suits, stationery, draperies?is a rich blue...