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...Into President Roosevelt's office went John L. Merrill, president of the Pan-American Society, followed by a delegation of 21. There one of the delegates hung around Mr. Roosevelt's neck a medal for promoting friendliness and co-operation among American countries. Said the President: "It is with the greatest appreciation, that I receive from your hands the medal of the Pan-American Society, particularly because it comes to me from an institution which was formed over 22 years...
...greet Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador's Minister to the U. S., and all Pan-American women, Senora Hermelinda U. Briones, Ecuadorean good-will flyer, took off from New York one day last week en route to Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
Such was the astounding announcement broadcast throughout Mexico City last week. Ericsson Telephone Co. promptly announced in full page advertisements that it did not own XEAL, that Pan-American Radio Co. must pay to end the strike. Meanwhile XEAL performers sang, told jokes, crooned, played music, demanded their money...
...third day Pan-American Radio Co. offered to compromise with 4,000 pesos. The offer was refused. Two women singers fainted. Frijole and tortilla vendors did a thriving business selling to the crowd which gathered to watch the performers who were now weakly croaking their songs and demands but stoutly refusing all food. Young bloods from Mexico City and one blind fiddler volunteered to help the strikers, most of whom tied towels around their heads to prevent giddiness...
...Pan-American Radio Co. on the fourth day sent a check for the full 13,000 pesos ($3,621), applied for receivership. The Red Cross fed grapes and milk to the prostrate strikers. Four who disobeyed orders and ate sandwiches grew violently ill. Senor Ramon Perez announced a new mass hunger strike record of 106 hours, added that he had established Mexico City's individual record with 104 sleepless. foodless hours at the microphone. History's longest continuous broadcast thus came...