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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure African descent. The blood of the white or yellow race does not flow in my veins. I am a Negro, a word derived appropriately from the Latin niger, meaning black, and used by the ancient Romans to indicate my ancestors who lived south of the Sahara Desert. . . . I, a veteran of the War against the Germans, am visiting America in the interest of commercial affairs. I have been north and south, closely and privately observing with an open mind. I believe that I can see the points of view of both races, and appreciate the inevitable conditions that exist...
Full Stop. A few hours later the storm burst at a secret session of the Council. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco announced his original stand once more and clung to it. An informal caucus of the delegates of nine Latin American nations twice met and twice repudiated the declaration of Senhor Franco that Brazil was only holding firm in the interest of all Latin America...
Briefly, the Brazilians so flagrantly defied the European powers and the Latin American nations, that the merest dullard asked: "With what power or powers is Brazil secretly in cahoots? With the Germans? With the French? With Italy, since Mussolini is notoriously anti-League...
Among the noses without the glass door of the courtroom, "Sex Viri" was whispered often and with lewd import. To the prurient not even a Latin numeral is pure. The "Six Men" of Cambridge were wronged. Meanwhile the five judges at London decided that the "Sex Viri" had wronged Dr. Haldane. They sustained his appeal and rendered a verdict which is expected to create the legal precedent that the private life of a university man shall be considered as of no relation to his scholastic position...
...French Quarter, the Vieux Carre, was originally the city itself. Its dignity, its gayety and especially its Mardi Gras carnival have made New Orleans one of the storied cities of the U.S. Hither came adventurers from Latin Europe, from Latin America. Here endured an Old World culture exotic and attractive. The old quarter still persists between Canal Street and the river-its narrow streets, its weather-beaten, balconied homes and stores. But the oldtimers, the French and Spanish, have been-crowded out of late. Other Latins have replaced them, the Italians who have gone into trade and commission marketing...