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President Juan Esteban Montero calmed his citizenry and suppressed a threatening revolution last week by switching Cabinets, declaring martial law for 60 days. That seemed to pacify the people of Chile, but not even Juan Esteban Montero could cope with her volcanoes. Volcanoes Tinguiririca, Quisapu. Cordillera, Descabezado, Cerro Azul all...
¶ With President Hoover's approval 14 carloads of Government-owned wheat rumbled out of Omaha for South Dakota -first batch of 5,000,000 bu. to be distributed there free to the needy by the Red Cross. The railroads handled the consignment gratis. Drought and grasshoppers necessitated this...
Five o'clock struck. All round Britain the doors of His Majesty's Customs Houses rumbled shut last week. British Free Trade was at an end as the recently enacted tariff bill went into effect. All week long the Channel was black with ships, the "Dumping Armada." British...
(2 of 2) delighted," remarked President Hoover when he heard that the House had at last tackled re-organization of the Federal machine. But he still believed, he added, that his method of blanket executive authority was better. President Hoover, personally inclined to keep the spirit of the truce and...
Goose-stepping stiffly across the Yoyogi parade ground in Tokyo, column upon column of Japanese troops passed a reviewing stand upon which stood his owl-eyed Majesty. Emperor Hirohito. After the last ammunition truck and field kitchen had rumbled by. the Son of Heaven stepped down, entered a state coach...