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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., Señor Don Carlos G. Dávila, some time ago received a mysterious package from India. In it was a rare Moslem rug which an attached note offered to the Ambassador for $10,000. If he did not want this rug, said the note, would he please "return" it to a specified Manhattan address? Puzzled, the Ambassador consulted the U. S. State Department...
...locked up in the very dungeon which once held Discoverer Christopher Columbus was the interesting fate, last week, of Señor Federico Velasquez, defeated candidate in the Dominican Republic's recent Presidential election...
...General Rafael Trujillo, offered his incarcerated rival the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Haughtily the prisoner refused. "I will not accept the Treasury post," said he, "while I am held in jail on the ridiculous charge that I am a revolutionary. I am not a revolutionist!" And sulky Señor Velasquez sat down in the dank depths of his historic dungeon...
...Prensa of Buenos Aires, outstanding South American newspaper, of whose staff Señior Jose Santos Gollan, Jr., was exchange professor at the Missouri school. (La Prensa gave a large collection of Argentine books to the school's library...
...Guns. Senator Hale se cured from the Navy wooden models of 6-in. guns and 8-in. guns as used on cruisers, set them up in his office to outline his objections to the treaty. Carefully he explained that a 6-in. gun would fire a 105-lb. shell 10 miles; an 8-in. gun a 260-lb. shell 18 miles. What seemed to displease him most was that, whereas under the 1929 naval plan 23 cruisers of 10,000 tons each, armed with 8-in. guns, would have been constructed, under the treaty this force would...