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Some Crusades. Before and after that interregnum, three generations of the Mesquita family have maintained the paper's integrity. Politically, O Estado has remained moderately conservative. Thus the paper has retained a power base among the rich while occasionally fighting for progressive causes. Julio Mesquita, grandfather of the present director, Julio de Mesquita Neto, was the son of landowners who gave up law for journalism. During the 1870s the paper crusaded successfully to abolish slavery. After the monarchy was overthrown, Mesquita supported the creation of a republic. Later, many regimes tried to suppress O Estado, and Mesquita was once...
Died. Júlio de Mesquita Filho, 77, Brazilian publisher, head of O Estado de São Paulo, one of South America's most influential and respected dailies; of pneumonia; in São Paulo. All through the 1930s Mesquita fought the demagoguery, corruption and censorship of Dictator Getúlio Vargas and was one of the forces that eventually brought his overthrow in 1945. In 1964, Mesquita lent his powerful support to the coup that ousted Leftist President João Goulart, but later grew disenchanted with the military dictatorship that resulted, and rejoined the battle...
...Sidney Weil, 52, treasurer and general manager of American Safety Razor Corp., second largest manufacturer of safety razors and blades (first: Gillette), became president, replacing J. B. de Mesquita, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Weil joined American Safety Razor in 1926 as export manager, and by 1943 was vice president and sales director. He stepped up to executive vice president and director...
TIME is accurate. The square foot age of St. Peter's at Rome is 227, -069; of the Mesquita at Cordova 232,250, less about one-third for courtyard and cloisters; of Santa Maria de la Sede at Seville 128,570 of St. John the Divine at New York 109,082; of the Duomo at Milan 107,-000. The Mesquita, many pillared was at one time a mosque, the largest sacred building of the Mohammedans, after their Kaaba at Mecca When in the 16th Century the Mesquita, with many alterations, was transformed to a Roman Catholic cathedral, Emperor Charles...
UNIVERSITY. DARTMOUTH. Brigham, g. g., Tobin Hartley, r.h. l.b., Thayer Greenidge, l.b. r.b., Clark Williams, r.h.b. l.h.b., Noyes Murray, c.h.b. c.h.b., Dale Begg, l.h.b. r.h.b., Oppenheimer Tuttle, o.r. o.l., Caswell Pallo, i.r. i.l., Smith Heizer, c. c., Fletcher Lamont, i.l. i.r., Hecht Phillips, o.l. o.r., Mesquita (Capt...