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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; brother of Marie, best-selling Grand Duchess (The Education of a Princess and A Princess in Exile...
...radio the eager, beardless young general heard Mexico's well-drilled Congress unanimously elect him Provisional President to fill out the term expiring Nov. 30, 1934. An hour prior General Calles had thoughtfully sent over to his young favorite the emblem of Presidential power in Mexico: the Grand Cordon of green, white and red ribbon embellished with the Eagle grasping the Snake...
Draping the Grand Cordon across his bosom, Provisional President Rodriquez hurried out to meet friends who were hurrying to tell him the good news. Exactly ten minutes after his election he stood before Congress, proceeded to take the oath : "I swear to observe and to have observed the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws emanating therefrom. I will loyally and patriotically fulfill the office of Provisional President of the republic, looking only and always to the welfare of the country. If I fail to do so, may the nation hold me responsible...
...Federal Grand Jury indicted Otis Perry Seligman, cashier of the First National Bank of Santa Fe, N. Mex.. for an alleged shortage of $25,941 in his accounts. Said his father. Governor Arthur Seligman, president of the bank, after making good the shortage: "He will have to take his medicine...
...made $8,000 profit. Rogers: "Say, son, that's fine. You'll be a millionaire if you can keep on doing that." Presently Pike Peters is bankrupt. This gives him a chance to discharge his butler, whom he hates, and to meet an old friend, the Grand Duke Michael. The Grand Duke (Theodore Lodi) has become a hotel doorman. As is customary in pictures dealing with financial reverses, Depression is shown to have a silver lining. The Peters family, awakened to the joys of simple living, take up residence in a shack, where Pike Peters happily cooks...