Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained, in a report addressed to the Mexican Congress last week, that Sir Henry was called in consultation, last year, when it became apparent that the problem of the national debt could not be resolved until the national railways had been placed on a sound basis. As a result of Sir Henry's report, said Señor Montes de Oca, "The Ministry of Finance are convinced that rehabilitation of our finances will not be realized if the National Railways are not administered as a private enterprise...
...What they do formally is to elect an Electoral College, which casts the actual vote for a President and Vice President. This vote is cast on the second Monday in January. It is not counted and tabulated until the second Wednesday in February, more than three months after the result has passed into history...
...flag. The Mayor, who is the first woman to hold the position, wore the scarlet mink-trimmed robe of her office, a tricornered black beaver hat, an official 16th-Century gold chain. She was accompanied by her daughter, honorary Mayoress, and was suffering from a swollen nose, the result of a slip on the ship's deck. After a one-week tour of the U. S., they returned on the Leviathan...
...Italian students played football with Hungarian students at post-Olympic games in Paris. Anti-Fascists among the spectators hissed and booed the Italians. Result-a brouhaha* French gendarmes intervened and several Italian students were injured...
Last week King Alexander was in Jugoslavia; Dentist Smith in France. Court Dentist Kostich performed an operation on King Alexander's wisdom tooth. King Alexander, therefore, postponed consultations on his kingdom's political situation, which, as everyone knows, is perilous as a result of the assassination of the late famed Croat-leader Stefan Raditch (TIME...