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Jose Maria Garza, former Mexican Minister to Holland, wrote a letter to Alberto Pani, Foreign Secretary. Señor Pani thought the tone of this letter insulting to the dignity of the Mexican Foreign Office. He sent the letter to the civil court. This annoyed Señor Garza, who sent seconds to Pani with a challenge to a duel to the death. Pani's attitude is unknown...
During the last six months Señor Obregon's time has been chiefly occupied by restraining the extreme Agrarians, Socialists and Reds. He has learned that American capital will not come without guarantees of security and property-rights...
...orchestration,--rarely in the history of Symphony Hall has Mr. Fiedler been kept so busy at his celesta; novelty upon novelty appeared, not loud and startling, but only to the careful listener. Plainly Mr. Holst is not interested in strange noises per se but only as they contribute to the effect of the whole. So he used muted harp and chime in unison, in "Saturn--Bringer of Old Age" with marked success. A much talked of organ glissando proved hardly noticeable, and almost a complete dud. The orchestra has rarely received such an ovation as it did after this piece...
...uash in the courts so munificently provided for that purpose. We found the door of the Linden Street mecca locked and barred. We then requested the janitor of Randolph to allow us to enter by the tunnel. He informed us sympathetically that the key had been peremptorily se uestered by one Greer, Comptroller of Athletics. We next trundled down to the freshman courts, in the hope that their physic use were still being improved without reference to acts of the Massachusetts legislature, and that there, in the very citadel of strongfortism, we might blushingly exert our feeble strentht. A sing...
...materials "and, above all, tranquility." The extremists, he said, could not provide raw materials, which would have to be obtained largely from abroad, nor could they provide tranquility. The Italian workmen, he added, were not inclined to the "Asiatic" ideas of the Third International; once again Italia fara da se...