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...Because our studio telephones have been cut off," shouted Senor Ramon Perez, "we have moved to the power station on Mixcoac Hill. We shall continue to broadcast without food or sleep until the Ericsson Telephone Co. pays us 13,000 pesos for three months' back pay! We represent 62 Station XEAL employes! The orchestra will now play 'Carioca...
...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...
...Washington even suspect that a new treaty was in the making. President Roosevelt's immediate purpose in rushing the new pact through at this time was to strengthen the hands of the Mendieta regime which the U. S. helped install in office. Only three weeks ago ex-President Ramon Grau y San Martin returned to Cuba from Mexico to accuse President Mendieta of not keeping his pledge to abrogate the old treaty (TIME...
...Collecting the great number of Paraguayan wounded has placed a heavy burden on all Bolivian detachments." Later figures gave Paraguayan losses at 3,000 dead, 5,000 wounded, 1,633 prisoners including 78 officers. Paraguay did not take this defeat quietly. To the League's Secretary in Geneva Ramon Caballero de Bedoya announced that, to its great regret, Paraguay was about to embark on a campaign of terrorism and bombing of un- fortified towns. "Paraguay's decision," explained Senor de Bedoya, i:is justified by the fact that Bolivia was the first to employ these methods of terrorism...
...pier Ramon Grau walked into a cheering, raving mob. His automobile inched slowly along, finally collapsed in the crush of admirers climbing upon it. At his home he walked out on the balcony to speak but the great, warm roar of the mob drowned out his words. He went back inside, stood uncertainly for a moment listening. Then he keeled over in a faint...