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...Pancho Augustin Villa Jr., 21. son of the oldtime Mexican bandit, who had been hired by a Hollywood studio to play his father as a young man in a film based on Villa's life, was declared insane by a Los Angeles court, committed to an asylum because he refused to wear clothes, attacked his mother with a piece of scrap iron...
When Belgian King Albert rolled over to Rio in 1919, hospitable Brazilians built him a special train in which he toured their United States. Last week Royal Albert's train, splendidly refurbished, was turned over to Brazil's latest great visitor, big-fisted President Augustin P. Justo of Argentina who rolled up to Rio in a battleship (TIME, Oct. 16). Just before his departure last week dynamic General Justo signed with broad and highbrowed Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil what they called "ten treaties." First was a pact of utmost significance, binding Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...
...another man might smack flies, big-fisted General Augustin P. Justo smacks Argentine revolts, bosses Congress (down whose retching throat he recently jammed Argentine adherence to the World Wheat Pact) and generally has fun. Last week neither the sudden discovery that agents of the Radical Party had perfected plots for a "general uprising," nor the sudden illness of Vice President Julio Roca could make President Justo change his plan of rolling up to Rio on a battleship...
...fisted President Augustin P. Justo of Argentina fortunately took the Senate on. His instructions to the Argentine Delegation in London, he declared, were to support null efforts to reduce wheat acreage and the Senate be damned! Last week the Senate subsided. In London jubilant Uncle Henry pumped the hand of Argentina's Le Breton, spread his story, rubbed his long bony fingers, declaring "All that remains now is the settlement of actuarial details...
...strains of "Ach du Lieber Augustin" the Harvard German Club will hold its spring dance at the Hotel Commander on Friday evening, May 5. The club, known also as the Turmwaechter Verein, was reestablished this year to continue the traditions of the former German club which existed before...