Word: occas
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...electric lights. And forthwith the Champs Elysees began to erect two chains of bulbs, six inches apart, from the Arc de Triomphe clear down to the Place de la Concorde. Far more than 100,000 extra electric lights will be used in la ville de lumiere on this occa-sion?perhaps the most brilliant occasion of modern Paris...
Dictator Appointed. President Calles conferred upon Finance Minister De Occa last week, what were described as "the powers of a financial dictator." Reason: to keep on good terms with the U. S. and meet payments owed to U. S. interests, it will be necessary for the Mexican treasury to postpone temporarily payments on the internal debt...