Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico is Laredo," Tex. Last week the portal was slammed shut by the removal of the Mexican consulate. Reason: Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had attempted to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime President of Mexico, on a 1922 murder conspiracy charge. Laredo shopkeepers, hard hit by the loss of Mexican trade, appealed to Governor Dan Moody who, in turn, appealed to Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...
...welcome to the Soviet Ambassador, though delayed, was sumptuous. Two coaches from the royal stable carried the Communist party from their hotel to St. James's. Scarlet-coated footmen were on the box, Ambassador Sokolnikov, trying to look proletarian under his silk hat, sat inside with Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, diplomatic corps marshal. In the Ambassadors' Court at St. James's Palace, the Reds were met by four of the King's marshalmen in peaked caps and Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master of hounds...
...supposed to be Laborites (i. e. Socialists), showed their Communist colors by abstaining. All but two Liberals turned against Mr. MacDonald. And the only thing that saved his government from falling was the abstention of 32 of his avowed enemies, the Conservatives, who are afraid to risk a general election now while Scot MacDonald is in the heyday of his Hoover prestige...
...that should Dillon, Read beat their "rivals" to the Stock Exchange with an $100,000,000 German loan, subsequent Morgan pickings from Reparations Bonds might verge upon the loan. According to the "dope" Dr. Schacht was persuaded to obstruct the loan by Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose post as Agent General of Reparations will automatically be abolished when the Young Plan comes into effect. For years Germans have been hearing that Mr. Gilbert will then become a Morgan partner...
...Swiss who can make statistics shout is Attorney-General Bugammen.' His last week's shout...