Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Lord d'Abernon sonorously: "The fact belongs to history that England was the first foreign country to manifest sympathy for Argentina and to offer material help." Then, while his Jockey Club audience occasionally cheered, the Viscount recalled that Britain has nearly two billion dollars invested in Argentina, mostly in railways and cattle. Humorously he noted that Argentina's Prize Bull of 1929 had just been bought at auction in Buenos Aires by the British Bovril (Beef Extract) Co. (slogan: BOVRIL puts BEEF into YOU!). "It seems to me," concluded Viscount d'Abernon, "that the reciprocal friendship uniting our countries...
...British loan to the Argentine Government for road building purposes. Both La Prensa and equally famed La Nation were skeptical of the constitutional right of Argentina's fanatically secretive President Hipolito Irigoyen to sign rich, special agreements without consulting the Argentine Congress. "Even members of the President's Cabinet," said La Nation indignantly, "knew absolutely nothing of what was afoot...
...operations, stock transactions, mergers will, of course, be complete and detailed. But at least one-third of the news will concern itself wholly with things Pacific. Kenneth C. Hogate. vice president and general manager of Dow, Jones & Co., amplified upon the necessity for such a newspaper. "The west coast," said he, "is an empire within itself. It contains the only entirely separate markets in the United States. Prices on the Los Angeles and San Francisco Stock Exchanges- whose seats are now selling for approximately $150,000 each-are in no way dependent on New York Stock Exchange prices. Some stocks...
...Ringling is now in his sixties. Said he: "Circus people are hard-working and thrifty. They all save up to have homes. . . . They can't get drunk even if they wanted...
...Albany its southern centre. In June (TIME, June 24) two other New York state utilities merged with Mohawk-Hudson, extended the Mohawk-Hudson territory west to Buffalo and northeast along the St. Lawrence. The merged company was christened Niagara-Hudson. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to be dubious concerning the legality of this merger, although his Republican attorney-general has reported it as within the law. Last week's excitement also centred along the St. Lawrence. Niagara-Hudson bought control of Frontier Corp., a company owned by Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric...