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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil accepted an invitation from President Roosevelt to visit Washington next month. Subjects for talk: trade, continental defense, Dictators. In any picture of the Dictators fostering a totalitarian state in South America, Brazil looms first and largest because its undeveloped areas are widest, its German and Italian populations powerful. Two years ago Brazil wanted to hire decommissioned U. S. warships to train its navy, but Argentina objected. After Argentina's obstruction of U. S. proposals at the Lima conference last month, her objections might now be disregarded...
...took it into C. I. O. In 1937 he fought and won a bitter strike with General Motors, signed up that giant, and all motormakers except Henry Ford. In 1938, he quarreled with his co-founders and lieutenants, and his union of 375,000 men (third largest in C. I. O.) was saved from falling apart only when John L. Lewis practically took control of it. Last week Homer Martin upset this much-joggled applecart...
...church organist, playing in Danbury, Conn., Bloomfield, N. J., and finally in Manhattan. Weekdays he plugged as a clerk for Mutual Life Insurance Co. Industrious and daring both as businessman and composer, Ives soon formed his own insurance managing agency, helped build it into one of the largest of its kind in the U. S. But Ives never let his business interfere with his composing. His evenings and holidays were spent, pen-in-hand, over an old desk, piling up a huge heap of manuscripts that were later to bring him fame...
...stockholders their company's assets. Last week, with Guaranty voting; 71% of the stock, 73% of the stockholders approved. When the burial is completed, Alleghany will be directly over the C. & O holding a 25% interest in that valuable property. Robert Young's group, meanwhile. remains the largest owner of Alleghany-but Guaranty will remain in control as long as Alleghany's bonds are in default...
Already an associate in oology, Dick Harlow has been appointed curator of oology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, it was announced yesterday. He will have direct supervision over the Agassiz egg collection, founded in 1859 and one of the largest and most comprehensive gatherings in the whole world...