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"The Divine Mob." For Velasco Ibarra it was an old story. First elected in 1934, he has been President four times, has completed only one term. A spellbinding orator who swings from right to left to suit his audience, he was elected last year by the votes and demonstrations of...
Died. Daniel Webster Hoan, 80, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee for 24 years of incorruptible efficiency and unprecedented solvency until his defeat in 1940, when the electorate suddenly saw Red, sought an unneeded new broom; of a stroke; in Milwaukee. A dishwasher who later cooked his way through law school, Dan...
To tell who's who in the academic procession: The University Marshal, the President and Fellows, the Overseers, the Governor and his military staff, the Deans of the various departments, honorary candidates, professors, other Faculty and administrators, former Fellows and Overseers, former professors, Phi Beta Kappa orator and poet, trustees...
In Zanzibar's general election last January, the two parties battled to a standoff (one orator declaimed to an African crowd: "It is true I have a light skin. You ask why I ask to represent black Africans. Well, I assure you my heart is as black as any...
The doors of the rundown mansion in Caracas were open wide, and the crowd spilled out to the street. From a flag-draped speaker's dais inside, a red-faced orator roared into a microphone. "We are proud that the bankers don't like us.'' said...