Word: senors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ferdinand Magellan went around the world in three years. Today, aviators are planning to do the deed in 15 days. But two Polish young men-Scoutmaster Jerzy Jelinski and Scout Henry Smosarski-are in no such hurry. They may take as long as the late Senor Magellan, for they are spreading good will among the Boy Scouts of the world. Fifteen months ago, they left Warsaw in a white-painted ("A Scout Is Clean") Ford, motored and lectured through Europe, were photographed with Benito Mussolini. Then they chugged across northern Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight...
...Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg that they can expect no official aid or comfort from the U. S. Mr. Kellogg cited with annoyance and positively denied rumors that pressure favorable to the Holy See has been or is being exerted by the Coolidge Administration on that of Senor Calles...
...Barring the possibility of a coup d'etat by one of the Roman Catholic insurgent leaders in Mexico, the first opportunity for an orderly change of government will be the Mexican presidential election of 1928. The present reactionary Mexican group headed by President Calles will, of course, put Senor Calles' old and strong friend onetime (1920-24) President Alvaro Obregon into the race, but who is the chief pro-Catholic candidate...
When speaking of the latter again it would be much more appropriate to call him Sr. (Senor) Paolino Uzcudun and not M. Uzcudun...
...said that, if an inventor could make a machine to play chess, he would have little trouble in producing a thinking machine. Yet, last week, the French Academy of Sciences admitted Leonardo Torres y Quevodo, mathematician from Madrid, to associate membership because he effectively demonstrated a chess-playing machine. Senor Quevodo's automaton meets all emergencies of the game when less than half of the chessmen are on the board; is even able to stop playing in case its human opponent cheats...