Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Foreign (Diplomatic and Consular) Service Buildings Commission. Said he: "An office building for our Embassy and Consulate will be erected. . . . Such a building as the Administration now has in mind would correspond with the architecture of the Hotel Florentin, the present residence of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue St. Florentin, and would balance the two larger structures of the Ministry of Marine and the Hotel Crillon, in accordance with the original plan of Jacques Gabriel...
Observers recalled that the present, sumptuous U. S. Ambassadorial Residence at No. 2, Avenue d'lena, Paris, was purchased and bestowed upon the State Department by the present U. S. Ambassador to France, famed Clevelander Myron Timothy Herrick...
Finally the Dictator spiked rumors that he plans to retire, and stated that he would advise King Alfonso XIII to leave the present Dictature unchanged in office for at least two years...
Remedies. "Must we turn back?" cried President Kalinin. "Some people are drawing that inference. . . . We must remedy the situation! After ten years of our present policy we have reached a point where we must realize that the shortage of grain for urban or export consumption is not the result of accident or poor crops...
...Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, handed solemnly to the Supreme Pontiff a voluminous report signed by the dignitaries of the Mexican Episcopate, who are now in exile at San Antonio, Texas. The report states, as Archbishop Ruiz later revealed, that there has never been a more favorable time than the present to harmonize the strained relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Mexico...