Word: jose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jose R. Capablanca, onetime world chsss champion, left by the Mauretania, predicted gloomily that in 15 years the game of chess will be exhausted, every combination of moves will be known even to amateurs. But he has a plan. Use a larger board, two additional pieces, four players. Mme. Halide Edib, Oriental feminist, sergeant in the Turkish army, once sentenced to death by a Sultan, arrived on the Aquitania, to address the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics. No Sultan-10ver, Mme. Halide divulged secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced...
Meanwhile able Mexican sleuths were ferreting out the name of the assassin-Jose de Leon Toral-and rounding up his whole family as suspects...
...Sefior Jose Amatuzzo, superintendent of the State Reformatories of Argentina, confided to correspondents, last week, details of a punishment which he deems "almost infallibly efficacious...
...dead man's character. Archbishop Drossaerts pointed out that Bishop Valdespino had belonged to the colony of Catholic refugees who had fled to San Antonio from the Mexican government. He commented on the poverty in which many of them have died, saying that the Most Rev. Jose Mora y Del Rio, archbishop of the City of Mexico, had three weeks ago "been buried on charity." From the pathetic, Archbishop Drossaerts proceeded to the critical...
Died. Ignacio Valdespino y Diaz, 67, exiled Bishop of Aguascalientes, Mexico; of heart disease; at San Antonio, Tex. His death follows by three weeks that of his companion-in-exile, Archbishop Jose Mora...