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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total illiteracy of the masses, a huge majority of which are Indians. Probably the great, feudal families of Peru are in no hurry to pump education or ideas into toilers who work so cheaply. Chief of the aristocratic oligarchs is Augusto B. Leguia, who is now relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." Since "T. R." is now dead and "Il Duce" has risen, President Leguia is sometimes called, "The Bantam Mussolini of Peru"-except by admirers who hail him as greater than either...
...transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization of the American Tobacco Co., with which he gained a two-thirds interest in the foreign market...
...success until Uncle Dan'l Drew, dour and dignified and sanctimonious, took the mustachioed youngster under his batlike wing. Drew was the man who drove thirsty live stock into Manhattan, and having watered it just before weighing it, greatly increased the pounds for sale, thus originating the financial term of "watering stock...
...This commission has been appointed to promote a continuous study of the convulsive disorders over a period of years. The term epilepsy is used for brevity, but it has been demonstrated in recent years that epilepsy is not a disease--it is a type of reaction of the human body to different abnormal stimulations: it has various causes. Thus the field of study must be broadened to include the convulsions of childhood, the eclampsia of pregnancy, uremia, asphyxia and other allied conditions. When these are all better understood there will be more chance of helping the chronic sufferer--the epileptic...
...students of the University are reminded that the second term bill of the year is due today...