Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly before the attempt on his life last week, President Irigoyen utterly nonplussed Argentine bankers and financiers generally by closing and locking Caja de Conversion (the Treasury exchange office where gold and silver may be had for Argentine paper money). Technically this order did not "suspend" gold payments, merely made them impossible. Ordinarily such a step would mean, at the very least, that Argentina was about to abandon the gold standard. Yet the gold coverage of Argentine currency issued by the Nacional Bank stood at 82% last week. Canny bankers discounted the President's amazing order as the latest greatest...
...Last week the citizens of Puebla tendered General Almada another banquet. Thoughtful businessmen remembered the Almada pledge, took up a collection...
Mexicans were gratified last week by the news from Washington that President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio had been presented with a Doctor of Laws degree by George Washington University. After the ceremony conducted by Georgetown-President Cloyd H. Marvin, Señor Ortiz Rubio delivered in voluble if slightly uncertain English a few lofty sentiments; left on the morrow to inspect Niagara Falls...
...militant clergyman. He asked State authorities to prevent his Yale classmates from serving drinks at reunion. He defied his bishop and when he was tried by an ecclesiastical court on 127 different charges pleaded his own case and was found guilty on three counts. Last week he was asked not to preach to a congregation in Hull, England, because he was "not in a fit state...
...June 1928, he began proceedings in the common pleas court, Philadelphia, for reinstatement in the Episcopalian ministry. The suit is still pending. Last year he went abroad to stump for Britain's Labor Party. Lately he has been preaching at St. Columba's Church, Hull, England. Last week the Rev. Canon Edward Arthur Berry, Vicar of Drypool, went to tall, bald, sleek Preacher Richmond, prevailed on him to stop preaching at St. Columba's. Said he to inquirers: "I felt he was too emotional and too excitable. My sole reason was I did not think...