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...voting was scarcely done the North American Way. The voters had been given no opportunity to elect anyone who had not fought in the Chaco War. That invalidated the two other candidates. But General Peñaranda no sooner donned his sash of office than he began to claim democracy had been restored, to talk about how warmly he will "welcome" and "guarantee" foreign capital invested "to improve communications and build hydroelectric plants...
...stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned on each the Grand Cross, and hung on each the scarlet sash of the Legion of Honor...
...first Popular Front Government, organized as such, in the history of the Americas was inaugurated fortnight ago in a simple, one-minute ceremony when Chile's President-elect Pedro Aguirre Cerda put on a tricolored sash, symbol of his office. No heart-&-soul revolutionary like Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, President Aguirre is a top-flight lawyer, a member of the Radical Party and a millionaire landowner...
Happy, therefore, was inauguration day in Buenos Aires last week as Agustin Justo turned over the President's palatial Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), the Presidential sash and ebony gold-headed cane to Roberto Ortiz. Six huge U. S. bombers (see p. 77) demonstrated over the city as the President-elect was sworn...
...secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...