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...Sept. 15, 1821 Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala all declared their independence from Spain. Last week a punctilious State Department sent the President of each little republic an anniversary message signed Herbert Hoover. Costa Rica got "hearty congratulations." Nicaragua "cordial felicitations," Honduras "best wishes," Guatemala "cordial greetings...
...from cans and packages, about half in bulk. Out of the Niagaran spout are poured 60 billion cups a year?one and one-third cups daily for every U. S. man, woman & child. Two-thirds of the coffee for the big U. S. pot comes from Brazil. Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Java, Mocha and other tropical lands furnish the other one-third, mild coffees which are blended with the strong Brazilian. Using a million bags a month, the U. S. last week had visible stocks which would keep the big pot full for another 20 days. The Farm Board...
CONQUISTADOR-Archibald MacLeish- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To Octogenarian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador retired to his estate in Guatemala, there came from Spain Francisco Lopez de Gomara's account of Cortes' Mexican expedition of 1519. The old lion Bernal was aroused. Who was this fine young Professor de Gomara, to be making charts out of battles and histories out of men? Old Bernal fought those battles, knew those men. He could make them live again-blood, bones, the light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History...
Generally speaking members of the expedition believe that the tropics can never be made more than comparatively liveable for the white man and see no prospect of his becoming adapted to life in the hot regions. The expedition's report in regard to Onchocerciasis written at Moca, Guatemala, states that "Public health procedure should include inspection of the inhabitants in the endemic districts and the diagnosis of the cases with filarial tumors with prompt removal of the fibroid growths. The operations are simple and easily performed under local novocaine anesthesia. In case of an individual refusing to be operated upon...
Members of the Onchocerca expedition included Dr. J. C. Bequart, assistant professor of Entomology at the Department of Tropical Medicine, Dr. M. M. Ochea chief of the parasitological division of the Department of public health of Guatemala and B. Rennett, a technician of the department of Tropical Medicine