Word: grandee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inaugural Unrest. No sooner was Senhor Luiz installed at the Presidential Palace, presumably to remain there until 1930, than 400 troops in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul mutinied, and necessitated the despatch of 1.000 federal troops to quell them. Skirmishing continued throughout the week, and recalled the...
American citizens possess very large oil holdings and other industrial property in Mexico. Ever since the present government announced its intention to enforce the land laws of the new constitution these interests have believed their business to be threatened with destruction. They have exerted frantic pressure on Washington to adopt...
Died. Lola Fisher (Mrs. Kenneth Thompson), 34, actress; in Fleetwood, Yonkers, of tuberculosis. She played in Rio Grande, Under Cover, Be Calm Camilla, Good Gracious, Annabelle; acted with William Courtney, Ethel Barrymore.
*There it connects with the Denver & Rio Grande Western, which it controls. By way of the subsidiary it joins (at Denver) the Burlington (Mr. James' Northern Pacific and Great Northern control the Burlington) and (at Pueblo, Colo.) the Missouri Pacific, the Burlington's transcontinental rival. Mr. James also...
Aside from the above, may I suggest in view of the fact that as one ascends the beautiful marble steps of Widener and views the spectacle of the person and the Christian War God on the right and on the left why not erect a charcters "The God of Peace...