Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commercially Brazil is a backward Colossus. The torpor of her tropic citizens and the very plenitude of projects at their disposal has made the land somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom...
...between them. There was actually in existence at the neutral capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, last week a conciliation commission as provided in the Gondra Convention, presided over by the Mexican Minister to Uruguay, Senor Fortunato Vega. Nonetheless, the position of the Bolivian Government as expounded by the newspaper El Norte was: "The sovereign Congress of Bolivia has never approved the Gondra Convention; and even if it had the convention tends to prevent armed conflicts, not to suppress them once they have begun, as in the present case...
...Conference in Washington. The new Argentine President and "boss politician" intimated recently (TIME, Oct. 22) that he was vexed by reports that President Calvin Coolidge had made up his mind to raise the tariff on corn and flaxseed. Vexed anew, last week, was President Irigoyen when the Independent El Diario of Buenos Aires issued a presumptuous statement that it expects the government to refuse to sign the Kellogg Peace Pact on the grounds that Argentina is "a traditionally peaceful country...
Tethmosis III quarreled with his stepmother Queen Hatshepsut over her doings in her temple at Dier el Bahri (Thebes). Angry Tethmosis took all the temple statues, smashed them to bits, threw the debris into a quarry pit, where diggers have found them and assembled some into the original shapes...
...Cavalier has Richard Talmadge, long popular in horse-and-pistol pictures, playing two parts-El Caballero, rescuer of the daughter of an impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking...