Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...
Exactly the opposite stand was taken by President Hipolito Irigoyen of Argentina. Though besought by Woodrow Wilson to declare war on Germany, and though beseeched by his own Senate and Chamber of Deputies to do so, stern Dr. Irigoyen kep Argentina out of war. Recently grateful Argentines re-elected him President, while Woodrow Wilson lies discredited and dead, and Wenceslao Braz has been thoroughly forgotten...
Here is material for a good drama or a good comedy. Unfortunately, the Hungarian Sil-Vara who penned the piece, has taken his stand directly between these possibilities. He has chosen to deal lightly with the subjects, tossing epigrams hither and yon every once in a while to keep us amused. But he has not done it as well as it has been done many times before. He has also chosen to have his characters release certain ponderous sayings from time to time, to keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better...
...risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker. Unashamed of poverty, he claims to have worn every day since 1924 the same now threadbare morning coat, striped trousers, soft felt hat. A meek man, President Miklas has been content to stand and wait upon Monsignor Seipel and other leaders of the Clerical party called "Christian Socialist." The fact that he was elected is a tribute to the continued potency of Chancellor Seipel's coalition. But the fact that 91 Socialist electors abstained is of far greater significance...
...into two mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia is the world's second largest tin producing country...