Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davies went to Washington from Watertown, Wis. in the days of the New Freedom. White-haired, black-browed, fluent, he was Woodrow Wilson's western campaign manager. Staying on in Washington through the lean Republican 1920's, he practiced international law, his clients including the Governments of Mexico and Peru. All the New Deal brought him was the job held by Dolly Curtis Gann's husband, who represented President Trujillo Molina of Santo Domingo in Washington. Currently Joe Davies is Dictator Trujillo's personal counsel...
Deric Nusbaum '36, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been elected a Rhodes Scholar for 1936, according to Frank Aydelotte, president of Swathmore College and American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees...
...turned up clues indicating that the "gift of God'' belonged to Anna Ware, not to Mrs. Muench, whose marriage had been childless for 23 years. After a change of venue, Mrs. Muench was acquitted of the kidnapping charge by a jury of farmers and small shopkeepers at Mexico, Mo. (TIME, Oct. 21). Under terrific pressure from Press and public, the habeas corpus hearing began in St. Louis only ten days later. Some strange testimony was adduced...
...other young men who grew up to be eminent U. S. diplomats by profession, William R. Castle Jr., Robert Woods Bliss, Peter Augustus Jay. Billy Phillips' career matched his endowments. After college a classmate and a fellow Porcellian, Bayard Cutting, elder brother of the late Senator from New Mexico, went to London as private secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph H. Choate. Tiring of diplomacy, Cutting in 1903 suggested Phillips as his successor. Two years later William Woodville Rockhill, U. S. Minister to China, met the suave and elegant young Phillips in London, took him to Peking as second...
Harvard is not the oldest New World university. The University of Mexico City was founded in 1553, while the institution in Cuzco, Peru, dates from 1598. On the other hand, Harvard outdates many European universities-- Bonn (1818), Gottingen (1737), London (1836), and Breslau...