Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed Governor of his home state, Michoacan, in 1923 Minister to Germany, in 1925 Ambassador to Brazil, at which time he was dean of the Mexican Diplomatic Corps. Returning to Mexico he announced that he would no longer use the title "General," and much was made during the recent campaign of the fact that Mexico was electing a civilian president. In certain states where the "transition in idealism" was feared to be incomplete, however, handbills were issued extolling the merits of "Señor Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Engineer & General...
...murder charge as his special train passed through that city (TIME, Dec. 23), and who had denounced Calles to U. S, Secretary of State Henry L Stimson as "the greatest exponent of Bolshevism in the Western Hemisphere."* Back in Mexico after a pleasure trip to Europe, General Calles was received like a conquering hero...
...times,* a horse 6 to 10 times. Miss Maclntyre breathes only 3 to 5 times a minute. In that respect she is phenomenal. Doctors read about her with wonder five years ago when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Only last week did the general public learn of her strange case...
...Mass meeting to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the League of Nations at Metropolitan Opera House. Manhattan. Speaker: General Jan Smuts...
Masons, printed an almanac (Poor Richard's), was a colonel in the French & Indian War, founded a hospital. He became the biggest printer in the Colonies and was made deputy postmaster-general. His electrical experiments (demonstration of the identity of lightning and electricity) won him a Fellowship in the Royal Society. He was sent to London to get Pennsylvania freed of the Penns and made a crown colony...