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...1940s Jenkins was in a position to swallow an entire $5,000,000 issue of bonds by the Mexican government's holding corporation, Nacíonal Financiera, without apparent strain. When a projected four-lane highway from Mexico City to Querétaro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies...
Tito struck then, and the world was shocked by the cynical mockery of Stepi-nac's twelve-day trial for collaboration with the Nazi puppet regime during the war. The sentence: 16 years at hard labor...
Inevitable Answer. Most of the argument at the CFM and the NAC turned on point 2, the rearmament of Germany. Instead of telling the European nations what the conditions of defense had to be, the U.S. requested agreement on rearming Germany and on other actions unwelcome to some of the Europeans. From France's Robert Schuman and some others, the U.S. got the inevitable answer: let's wait a while...
Crohn's subsequent presence at a New York Area Council meeting as a delegate in deflance of NAC caused the suspension of 13 chapters of the AVC in New York and the ousting of Morris Pottish, chairman of the Area Council. The Harvard delegates voted nine to one to uphold the authority of the national bodies in these matters, but deplored the methods used for discipline...
Fifi Vollard lives today with his cat (see cut) in a huge house on the RuedeMartig-nac whose first floor shutters are never opened. Artist Rouault has a locked studio on the top floor from which Fifi for all his blustering is rigorously excluded. They lunch and quarrel together nearly every day, but not even Fifi Vollard knows where Georges Rouault lives. He receives all his mail and makes all his appointments at No. 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld which is the Gustave-Moreau Museum of which he is curator. Neither his stately wife, Marthe Le Sidaner who paints very...