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...reproduce the phrases-but doubtless they rang on this note-of José Munoz-Cota, 19, of the National Preparatory School of Mexico (Mexico City) who last week vanquished representatives of five other districts of Mexico in an oratorical contest with a ten-minute oration on "Bolivar and Latin-American heroes." Other things that José must have referred to about Bolivar-things that made him not merely Bolivia's but Colombia's and Peru's and indeed all Latin-America's George Washington-Napoleon-Mussolini...
Professor Charles Wilson Rackett, visiting lecturer in Latin-American History and Economics at the University during 1925-6, has just been appointed by President Coolidge as delegate to the approaching Panama Congress, it was announced last night. Professor Hackett came to Harvard from the University of Texas, where he holds the position of Associate Professor of Latin-American History...
...music and literature. He has "written reams of music since his twelfth year"?is now working on a comic opera in the manner of Gilbert and Sullivan. His degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. are for research in romance philology. He constitutes something of a pundit on Yiddish and Latin-American literatures, having served the Haldeman-Julius Co. ("Little Blue Books"?Girard, Kan.) in that capacity. Last year he published an exhaustive book on Editor H. L. Mencken of the American Mercury, for whom he has great admiration...
...Texis. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and has studied in his particular field at Leland Stanford and the University of California, where he was formerly connected with the History Departments. In the field of current history he is an expert in the department of Latin-American affairs...
...Winslow.* As another "first woman," Miss Atcherson became an object of interest. It was learned that her father was a reputable local officeholder; that she was graduated from Smith College, was Secretary to the President of the University of Chicago; and, since passing her diplomatic examinations, served in the Latin-American division of the State Department. She is 31. (She was not, as erroneously reported, a hail-fellow student of Ohio State University, nor Secretary to President Thompson of that Institution.) She did post-Armistice work in France, was decorated...