Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large majority of the Alumni, but in spite of this opposition, he did not swerve from the lines he had chosen, and after 15 years, has convinced most of the Alumni of that University that his plans were sound, while at the same time winning for himself a place as one of the foremost educators in the country. University Presidents, who are "yes-men," rarely fight large numbers of influential Alumni...
Downstairs. In the many-colored state apartments are held the great social functions of the Presidency-the 75-place dinners on gold plate, the four crowded receptions with 2,500 officials and ladies invited to each...
...sign power of attorney, the Sonora law requires a personal service of a copy of the petition on the defendant; and in case he or she will not accept service - a confirmation of the facts alleged must be obtained by the taking of depositions from two witnesses at their place of residence...
With a lowering scowl and a menacing jut of his heavy jaw, the Seņor President indicated to correspondents his intense displeasure at a statement issued, last week, from a secret hiding place, by the Bishop of San Luis Potosi, now spokesman for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico. Opening with a reference to the writer's "serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME...
...government considers that Seņor de la Mora is in open rebellion, since the place in which he keeps himself is not even known, and that he is one of the probable directors of the armed movement of Catholic fanatics in the State of Jalisco...