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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Solemnly at last the Parliament of the Union of South Africa voted on General Hertzog's bill while General Smuts watched, tense and grim. The official tally gave the measure a majority of five votes -but a two-thirds majority was required to make it law. A mirthless, triumphant smile twisted the lips of General Smuts. He had won this preliminary skirmish, but the real dogfight will be the General Election, now scheduled for next June...
...special train had been provided, and so potent is the name of TROTSKY still, in Russia, that at his mere request another special train chuffed down from Moscow to meet the first, bearing two of his relatives for a family reunion. All along Comrade Trotsky had told the dictator's agents that he "refused"' to leave Russia at Stalin's "illegal" order, and seemingly the agents were so perturbed by this that they stopped the Trotsky special train for 12 days amid open fields to query Moscow for further orders. Every day the engine would chuff...
...When two major revolutions broke out in Mexico last week on the very day before U S. President Hoover's Inauguration, correspondents heard a flustered official of the U S State Department exclaim that Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, on his recent visit to Washington, certainly did not give Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg any reason to think that Mexico was on the brink of revolution. Curiously enough, the only U. S. daily which let this indiscreet admission into cold type was New York's arch-Republican Herald-Tribune...
...actress, Lupe Velez was born in San Luis Potosi, seven days by donkey from Mexico City. When she was twelve she danced at a church festival. A booking agent, impressed, hired her as ballerina for a theatrical troupe. Her family thought a convent would be better for her. After two years in Our Lady of the Lake, at San Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month in Hal Roach comedies, then as Douglas...
...press agentry recently included a story of Lupe's gifts from her leading-man ("sweetie"), Gary Cooper. These were two live, well-mated, very hungry eagles, and one stuffed eagle. Lupe was quoted: "Thees heegles-they eat and eat, now that damn mamma heegle, I hate her, for I theenk she get more and more fat and pretty soon poor Lupe she have little heegles all over the place, all eating rabbits and more round steak...