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...manager, William Ferris, spent a month in Mexico City, negotiating with the Government, and left abruptly. On Mr. Hearst's visit to Mexico, he appealed to the American authorities to prevent new taxes on his 1,000,000-acre ranch, extending through the three states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas. Taxation was levied on the Vera Cruz portion alone...
...Italian delegation sent by Premier Mussolini to Mexico arrived at Mexico City from Vera Cruz. They requested an interview with President Obregon for the purpose of discussing the establishment of Italian colonies. Mexican Laborites, united in conference, denounced the Italians as Fascisti and voted to petition the President to refuse an interview to "reactionaries and enemies of labor." At the same meeting a Laborite protested against a proposed invitation to U. S. Rotary Clubs to hold a convention in Mexico City next year. He said that "silk-hatted, frock-coated Rotarian Fascisti from the United States were no less enemies...
...month and the P. de Satrusregui, the last vessel that will call at New York, carries only 200 passengers). But the Line has carried on between Barcelona and New York for 40 years. Henceforth its ports of call on this side of the Atlantic will be Havana and Vera Cruz...
...large and wonderful cast. In the American theatre and even in the Yiddish Art Theatre, the tendency was to make them focal, to play for the star. A perfect cast in almost every case was that of Saturday afternoon. Ivan Lasareff as the actor, Giorgi Burdzhaloff as Kostilyoff, Vera Pashennaya as his wife, and Nina Litovtseva as Anna created unforgetably fine characterizations. The Pepel of Peter Baksheieff, while it was exceptional in its way, seemed out of tune with the playing of the rest of the company...
...assassination was carried out by farmers, allegedly at the instigation of the Government of the State of Vera Cruz, who favor a communist policy for the division of estates. A conflict is feared between the State and the Federal authorities...