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Last week it was understood that President Calles was about to set his hand to an alien land and petroleum law which would violate the U.S.-Mexican understanding. It was even rumored that President Calles had already signed these bills. At Washington the situation was considered not only grave but exceedingly awkward...
...Significance. Foreign nationals noted that, setting aside all question of "retroactiveness," the new laws are designed very nearly to annul the future possibility of an alien's acquiring in Mexico any of the luscious "rights of exploitation" upon which many a non-Mexican purse fattened in the past. Most land-owning corporations will have to be organized with at least 51% of their stock in Mexican banks. Those within 25 miles of the frontier of Mexico must be 100% Mexican. "All natural mixtures of the carbons of hydrogen (i. e., "petroleum," etc.) are vested in the nation," and their transference...
...Whitney was notified that hers would probably be accepted. But certain members of the Rhode Island chapter of the Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument was "of an architectural style entirely alien to our city and our tradition and . . . inappropriate. The site chosen for it is . . . a corner lot. . . ." Mrs. Whitney's hopes fell. Sculptor Montana went to work on a new opus to be called "The Supreme Sacrifice...
...President Coolidge appointed Howard Sutherland, onetime (1917-23) Senator from West Virginia, to succeed the late Frederick C. Hicks (TIME, Dec. 28, MILESTONES) as Alien Property Custodian...
Died. Frederick Cocks Hicks, 53, Alien Property Custodian, Eastern Director of the Republican National Committee during the last election, four times Republican Congressman, Quaker, financier; at Washington, of instantaneous collapse while watching the famed magician Howard Thurston perform in a Washington theatre...