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...vice president who does things is Julio A. Roca of Argentina. He went to London nine months ago to negotiate a special trade agreement necessitated by the Ottawa Conference's preference of Dominion meat for British markets, and to discuss foreign exchange. British firms have great sums frozen in Argentine banks through foreign exchange regulations. Before he left England, Vice President Roca sat down with President Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade and initialed a treaty including an agreement whereby British firms anxious to get their money out of Argentina may buy with their blocked pesos...
...Argentine revolts, bosses Congress (down whose retching throat he recently jammed Argentine adherence to the World Wheat Pact) and generally has fun. Last week neither the sudden discovery that agents of the Radical Party had perfected plots for a "general uprising," nor the sudden illness of Vice President Julio Roca could make President Justo change his plan of rolling up to Rio on a battleship...
Smack-General Justo's police pounced on 23 ringleaders in the Radical plot, called it "completely crushed." Smack- the President brushed aside an elaborate public ceremony at which he was to have turned over his powers to the Vice President before leaving Argentina. Since Roca was sick, let him stay in bed. A brief decree, signed without ceremony by General Justo at the last moment, gave bedridden Roca proper power. With bands blaring, banners flying and two regiments escorting him as a guard of honor, President Justo stepped aboard his special train at Buenos Aires and sped...
...Spanish Embassy in London one night last week, Edward of Wales sat on a gilded chair during a function in honor of Vice President Julio Roca of Argentina, a friend of his Empire Salesman days. Before him gyrated a sinuous Spanish dancer, her hair set with jaunty combs and a rose. As she stomped through a lively jota, one comb fell out. H. R. H. swooped it up, returned it with a bow. At the next paseo the lady with flashing eyes shook out two more combs and the rose. There were loud cries of "Que hombre! Ole Ole!!" Edward...
...Initiation fee was $2, annual dues $2. More recently they have published the R. F. A. News, an eight-page quarterly which runs gossip on Rockefellers; family genealogy and such information as: "This name [Rockefeller] was chosen after the name of their chateau [at Creyssels, France], which was called Roca-folio. . . . The greater part . . . of the rocks of Creyssels . . . were found to be of petrified leaves." Many issues of the News carry articles about the Rockefeller Foundation, John Davison's educational stimulant. To the Family Association's educational fund John Davison has given nothing but his dues...