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...Newfoundland, as you know, is inhabited by 2,000,000 people of Spanish origin who still speak Spanish since Cortes conquered the country from the Incas, while the Guatemalans speak Portuguese, since Don Pedro of Syracuse conquered the country in 1456. . . . As just one example of injustice, these two States are represented in the American Senate by only one Senator, whereas the others, such as New York, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dumb Deputies | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Though Author James Gould Cozzens is not yet 30 he has already hung up a U. S. literary record: his last two novels have been Book-of-the-Month Club choices. A little over a year ago it was S. S. San Pedro; this week it is The Last Adam. Not many readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Bull | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Edward G. Acomb '35 of Wankegan, Illinois, Walter S. Anderson, Jr. '33 of San Pedro, California, Robert R. Baker '35 of Dedham, Eliot L. Bernstein '34 of Chelsea, Carl L. Billman '35 of Winchester, William P. Blane '34 of Jackson Heights, New York, Richard A. Bloomfield '33 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edwin I, Bratnard '35 of Arlington, Donald W. Brown, Jr. '34 of New York City, John L. Burling '34 of Washington, D. C., Francis H. Bury '35 of Needham. Robert M. Campbell '34 of Watertown, Charles R. Cherington '35 of New York City, Warren L. Claff '33 of Randolph. Richard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Award Honorary Scholarships To 109 Students in First Groups of Rank List | 12/14/1932 | See Source »

...CARPENTER San Pedro, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...reject President-Elect Alessandri and raised deafening cheers for the defeated candidate, part-Irish Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced Gro-vay). With all Chile tense, wondering whether Col. Grove would try a coup d'état (as he has several times before) the world's largest nitrate plant Pedro de Valdivia closed down last week. This plant, owned by the U. S. Guggenheims, has a capacity of 700,000 tons of nitrate yearly and is controlled by Cosach, the Chilean nitrate monopoly in which the Government and the Guggenheims are major stockholders. Tersely Cosach's President Medley Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Four-Ply Crisis | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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