Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both revolutions were at first entirely bloodless. The soldiers of the garrisons at Vera Cruz and Nogales simply obeyed their Generals-previously trusted servants of the state-when ordered to declare against the government of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil, ruthless suppressor of Catholics...
...President moved against the revolutionaries by asking onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-28) to emerge from his civilian retirement and defend the state as Minister of War. Responding instantly, General Calles ordered swift mobilization, scoffed at reports that six states had joined Sonora and Vera Cruz in revolt clapped on an iron censorship...
...reach Broadway he starts with an excellent idea. He evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...
...Dohrmann. Head of the Dohrmann Commercial Co., coastwide merchants, is A. B. C. Dohrmann, onetime director in San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, present member of State Industrial Welfare Commission. Mr. Dohrmann has dabbled somewhat in motion-picture producing. He believes in short skirts, in efficiency for women...
Consolidated Gas Co. Federal, state, county and municipal taxes cost the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York so much that it made only $59,592,551 net income in 1928, an increase of $7,282,394 over 1927. These taxes, totaling more than 24 million dollars, amounted to more than 17% of operating costs. Last week's report (the first since the merger with Brooklyn Edison Co.) put Consolidated in the billion-dollar class with total assets...