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...Mighty Jesus." In a biplane named Jesus del Gran Poder (Mighty Jesus) Spanish Flyers Francisco Jiminez and Ignacio Iglesias last week flew from Seville on a non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro. They landed at Bahia, 4,100 miles from Seville, refueled and proceeded to Rio, whence they expect to go to Buenos Aires. Their flight is one of the longest on record...
Geraldine (Pathe). Booth Tarkington, amiable observer of smalltown surfaces, thought and wrote about a homely girl whose father brought home a bright young man to make her happy. The producers and players (Albert Gran, Marion Nixon, Eddie Quillan) got the drift of the thing, but not the kindly, Tarkingtonian sparkle. The result is only fairish...
...highly technical position taken by the Bolivian foreign office is that the HONOR OF BOLIVIA demands that Paraguayan blood be spilled, because Paraguayan TROOPS ATTACKED BOLIVIANS (TIME, Dec. 17) in the disputed area of Gran Chaco, a wild and wooded region of over 100,000 square miles...
From the first the Paraguayans have contended that it was their troops who were attacked by Bolivians; and the Paraguay chargé d' affaires at La Paz, Bolivia, immediately suggested neutral investigation of whatever had occurred in Gran Chaco. The reply of the Bolivian government was to break off relations with Paraguay last fortnight, and to send more Bolivian soldiers last week into Gran Chaco, where at least 200 humans met death in circumstances impossible to ascertain...
Justinian Szeredy, to be archbishop of Gran and Cardinal; and again asked: "Has anyone anything to say?" Again the cardinals severally raised their red caps in silent & formal consent...