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Word: senors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole League of Nations one day last week, but Cuba's holdupman was not small. Like some mighty Mutt he roared defiance at a little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Mutt & Jeff; Queen Bee | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...government and the Mexican National Railways (today an insolvent concern). Last week the grand total of these Mexican debts stood at $514,302,000 principal, plus $369,888,000 in accrued unpaid interest. Therefore in the cool Manhattan office of J. P. Morgan & Co. an agreement was signed by Senor Luis Montes De Oca, Mexican Finance Minister. By its terms Mexico's principal creditors (the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico, chairmanned by Thomas William Lamont) agree to accept a "very large" but unspecified cut in arrears due, permit the Mexican National to be reorganized as a going concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Sling at Morrow | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

Unabashed, Mexican authorities announced that the whole thing was a plot of the Vasconcelistas, partisans of defeated Presidential candidate Jose Vasconcelos. Safe in Los Angeles, Senor Vasconcelos commented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Inauguration Without Assassination | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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