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In attacking Mr. King's pet policy last week other Conservative speakers who followed Mr. Guthrie scathingly asked whether the Canadian Legation in Washington (maintained at an annual cost of $100,000) is being used to protest the U. S. tariff. " One thing we do know!" roared Conservative Thomas Kaiser...
¶ Promoted in the foreign service by President Hoover last week for "courageous and energetic action . . . and exceptionally meritorious service" were John Moore Cabot, U. S. legation secretary at Santo Domingo, and William A. Bickers, consul at Puerto Plata, D. R. Because of their pacification of the last Dominican revolution...
Rebels were rising in the back country. That morning a wireless message had come through that revolutionists had captured the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, were advancing on the capital. Minister Curtis ordered Courier Cabot to Santiago de los Caballeros to find out what the leaders of the revolution...
Next morning, while the Government's army in Santo Domingo remained stu- diously neutral in their barracks, the invasion of Santo Domingo city began. Two thousand revolutionists, mostly farmers in blue overalls with rifles slung from their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back...
Died. Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, 64, secretary of the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, Prefect of the Congregation of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, famed (1903-14) as Papal Secretary of State; of heart failure after an appendectomy; in Rome...