Word: senors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Latin Delegates to the Conference harkened closely while Senor Calvin Coolidge spoke, joined in the general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
...heavy scowl have sometimes been called the typical externals of President Plutarco Elias Calles. The fact that he once publicly alluded to "the grunts of the Pope" caused some to fear that his mind might resemble his fists. Last week such mistaken impressions were given the lie when Senor Calles proved himself not only supple of body but adept at mellow geniality. Scene: the $375,000 private train of the President of Mexico which puffed all week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another. On board were the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow...
This decision is based on the principle of retroactivity, the new law having been passed in January, 1926, and made effective as from 1917. It was this procedure that the Supreme Court judges held contradicted the spirit of the constitution. Moreover, the President, Senor Lombardo held that the penalties were tantamount to confiscation (forfeiture without payment) and were therefore unconstitutional...
Holding on to the sleeve of General Escobar, Senor Gomez was taken to the village of Tepcelo, where at 1 o'clock in the morning a court martial was held and his death sentence pronounced...
Together with Emilio Aguinaldo, Senor Quezon is the dominant spirit in the fight for Philippine self-government, and he is in this country at the present time for the purpose of interviewing President Coolidge on that question...