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...thing for the Mexican Federal Government to expropriate property belonging to foreigners. But suddenly last week the whole Press of Mexico City joined in pointing out that for a mere Mexican state to snatch gringo capitalists' belongings is quite another thing, stupid and unconstitutional. Prominently the great independent daily El Universal featured an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune remarking how wrong it was for Governor Bartolome Vargas Lugo of the State of Hidalgo to seize a $300,000 cement plant from its British owners (TIME, June 6). For once it seemed that Wall Street and Mexico City...
Fearful that Death might snatch him away from his large fortune before he could make it colossal, shrewd Armenian Merchant Eli Amirhanian drafted a strange will, died peacefully...
While the U. S. Congress was kicking over its traces, refusing to pass the Sales Tax (see p. 12), Ontario's Legislature moved last week to snatch a rich reward from the fruitful mothers of Toronto. On Oct. 31, 1926 wealthy Charles Millar of Toronto died without heirs and left his $500,000 estate in trust for that Ontario mother who should bear the greatest num-ber of children between the date of his death and midnight...
...political crowd over held the reins but what there was another bunch plotting how to snatch control...
...giving British imperialistic diplomacy a good thwacking. The policy he himself proposed, says Shaw, was adopted at Locarno, twelve years later "when it was unanimously applauded as a triumph of British statesmanship." When the War broke, Shaw saw in its confusion a good opportunity for Socialists to snatch a political victory, told them "there are only two real flags in the world henceforth: the red flag of Democratic Socialism and the black flag of Capitalism." Patriotic indignation overflowed. By open letter Shaw tried to persuade Wilson to request that Great Britain, France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight...