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Loud was the outcry from film exhibitors, labor men, party leaders, but the Argentine Government stood firm. Meanwhile, across the muddy estuary of the Plata, progressive Uruguay quietly passed The Great Dictator. Two big river boats were refitted to handle mobs of Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) who...
One morning last week, Christmas shopping under a broiling sun, porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) saw a terrible sight in the Plaza de Mayo. About 1,000 people, many in pajamas and hospital gowns, milled before the Government House, chanting hoarsely: "The vaccine is ours!'' They...
Died. Remy Leclerc, 62, Paris' only bearded traffic cop, to whose post at the busy Porte Saint-Denis devout tourists for years repaired in order to touch his long whiskers for luck; in Paris. A noted painter of old Paris, he once held a one-man show at the...
This week, as the press preview round trip completed its westward flight and a scheduled flight over the northern route was headed east, Pan American's 41-ton Dixie Clipper (Captain Arthur E. La Porte, commanding) was readied at its Port Washington, L. I. base to take off for...
In 1900 Pegler went to work for the Chicago American, stayed there 15 years, under such famed managing editors as Victor Watson and Foster Coates. He covered the Belle Gunness murder case in La Porte, Ind. (she cut off the heads of nine Swedish swains), chased an imaginary Belle Gunness...