Word: grandee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Eugene G. Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation has an answer to Judge Gary's plea for letting down the immigration bars. He announced that he had 1,000 Mexican laborers at work in his plants, that they were efficient and reliable, and that since there was no...
The proportion of expatriates among our great artists would partially explain this. Whistler (quarrelsome cosmopolite), Mary Cassatt (grande dame in Paris), John Sargent (brilliant and fashionable London portrait painter) are three of our greatest figures-but hardly expressive of America.
Brazil: A revolution is in progress in the State of Rio Grande do Sul-in the extreme South. The rebels have in many cases been reinforced by deserting Government regiments. The capture of Rosario caused a good deal of alarm in Santa Anna do Livramento and in Quarahy. The inhabitants...
The Shipping Bill, the English debt, and King Tut-Ankh-Amen, leave little room in the newspapers for our neighbor south of the Rio Grande. Mexico recently has passed its second year under the administration of President Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary successor of President Carranza, and impartial observers, with vivid recollections...
17. Rose of the Rio Grande.