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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathetic Christians regard as a custom worthy of respect. It is the religious service observed for centuries by the Jews of Jerusalem at the "Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped, they yauped...
...Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional leaders see in the "Grand Party" the doom...
Twelve years ago, when President Irigoyen was inaugurated for his first term (1916-22), the crowd burst through police ranks, unhitched the horses of the presidential carriage, and drew it themselves slowly down the Avenida de Mayo to Government House. Then Dr. Irigoyen beamed with pleasure at the plaudits and waved high & wide his hat. Last week, confident of his power and surfeited with adulation, he sped down the Avenida in his limousine, so briskly that the mob had scarcely time to see or cheer...
...Government House Dr. Irigoyen was greeted by the man whom he placed there in 1922 when his own first term expired, Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear. Last week retiring President de Alvear surrendered his baton to Dr. Irigoyen and then the Presidential band of colors, into which is woven the figure of the rising...
...scheme at the Academy takes little account of vacations. Except for ten days during the Christmas seasons of his second, third and fourth years, the cadet is allowed but ten weeks respite during the four year term. The summer months are occupied with camp and other military operations...