Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Matthew Elting Hanna, 62, long-time Latin-American diplomat, U. S. Minister to Guatemala since 1933; in Tucson, Ariz...
Motion pictures taken in Guatemala and Haiti and commented on in English by Karl T. Soule, Jr. '39 will be the feature of an open meeting of the Spanish Club in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 3 o'clock tonight...
...America to bring culture to the Aztec, Inca and Maya Indians of the New World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor-Vat in French Indo-China. The Mayas of what are now Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan, he says, could never have evolved the controversial earth-monster of Quirigua from native American animals; therefore this monster must be the makara, a legendary beast, part crocodile, part elephant, evolved by sculptors in Asiatic India...
...late 1920s Brazil began to store up coffee and future trouble for itself in the form of two revolutions. Though other coffee lands like Colombia, Guatemala, etc. can produce some 40% of the world's demand, Brazil's crop alone was larger than total world consumption in 1929. The following year 16,500,000 bags were bought up and pledged under a $97,000,000 foreign loan with the idea of liquidating both the loan and the coffee over a period of ten years. In 1931 Brazil was again knocked to her knees with another bumper crop. Finance...
...purpose of this invasion of Africa was to find out if a tropical disease discovered in Guatemala five years ago was the same as one believed to be prevalent among the natives of the Katanga district. Their summer's work convinced the members of the expedition that the two are identical, and a great deal of valuable information was obtained...