Word: cortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Mexico, which expropriates private property, then pleads inability to pay, Costa Rica is obliged by its Constitution to pay first, then expropriate. Last week President Léon Cortés Castro approved a plan to dig up the necessary payment-a Government bond issue mortgaging the firm's $3,000,000 power plant. The sirens which acclaimed future Government control of a U. S. public utility were premature, however. Three million dollars would be a staggering amount for agricultural Costa Rica's 591,000 inhabitants to kick in for such a bond issue at home. Abroad...
Borrowed by Director Roland J. McKinney of the Baltimore Museum of Art were 149 pieces representing virtually the entire range of Maya civilization from 1 A.D. to 1541 A.D. The Aztecs, whose beautiful city of Tencchtitlàn was razed by Hernando Cortés in 1521, were a late-flowering branch of this civilization. Accurate astronomy and mathematics, a written language, games with rubber balls were known to the Maya people. The truncated pyramids on which the Maya built their temples still stand in the jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with...
...male leads will be taken by Harvard men. James H. Goulder '36 will play the part of King Hildebrand; Joseph F. Lautner '22, now in the Music department, Hilarion; William Shelmerdine '37, Cyril; John C. Cort '35, Florian; Thomas O. Jones '38, Arac; William G. Cahan '35, Guron; and Herbert S. Wallis '36, Seynthius...
...Bartram Kelley, Jr. 2G, the Choral Society is made up of the following members of Lowell and other houses: Stewart Bates 1G, Edward M. Brooks '37, Courtlandt Canby '36, John C. Cort '35 John H. Eric '37, Edward A. Kracke, Jr. 2G, Karl E. Scheville '37, Frederick B. Tolles '36, Frederick M. Watkins '30, Junior Prize Fellow, and Peregrine White...
...various states turned in their nominees for Rhodes Scholar yesterday it became known that John Cyrus Cort '35, of Woodmere, New York, and Herbert Leopold Brown 2nd, 1GB, of Cincinnati, Ohio were among the candidates. Whether this completes the list of Harvard nominees could not be ascertained tonight for men attending Harvard and residing in other states may apply either from their home states or from Massachusetts...