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...Affairs showed that no official shared Mr. Hagerman's many duties, that his tribal councils were beginning to pro duce results, that the "deal" was a $1,000 sale at public auction of a lease which geologists had declared practically worth less and which the buyer, one E. S. Munoz, thought so little of that he divided it among his creditors in a poker game be fore (very much later) he sold...
Followed an anthem which practically no one knew, the national song of Mexico. Jet-eyed young José Munoz-Cota of the National Preparatory School (Mexico City) required no further encouragement to launch again upon his famed oration "Bolivar and the Latin-American Peoples" with which he defeated all-comers for the Mexican title (TIME, June 28). Master José's audience understood but little of what he said, for he spoke in purest Spanish. The final oration, by Maxime Raymond Fuel of Nancy, France, was also unintelligible to most of those present though it sounded very well...
...Mercier (French professor at Harvard), Dr. Robert M. Sugars of McGill University (Irish-born). When these five-four foreigners to one U. S. citizen-voted, they were unanimous in awarding the international championship and a silver loving cup to Orator Wenig of the U. S.; second honors to Orator Munoz-Cota of Mexico...
Despatches failed to 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...
...McKim fellowships in architecture at Columbia, amounting to $1,000 each, have been awarded, for the first time, to A. C. Munoz of the class of '88, and A. M. Welch of the class...