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Oldest inhabitants of this No. 1 rebel state said that the dethroning of his Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro II was not half so exciting as the ousting last week of His Excellency President Washington Luis. Reason: This was Rio Grande do Sul's own victory. She as a state had started the civil war (TIME, Oct. 13), and her former President Dr. Getulio Vargas (as popular in his state as "Al" Smith in New York) was on his way from the battle line to assume the presidency of Brazil. He, like Mr. Smith, was the defeated candidate...
...famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with red flowers," and her brother Pedro go to the market place...
...painted clay pig bank. Pita has a pig, Pedro wants one like it. Pancho, the toyman (drawn from a mason who worked on the Morrow weekend abode at Cuernavaca) has no pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing...
...February, 1922, Pedro Nel Ospina was elected...
...seven capital ships absent were: Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Navy yard; Arizona and Mississippi at Norfolk Navy yard, all being overhauled and modernized; at Brooklyn Navy yard, the Arkansas and Wyoming, being overhauled; at Puget Sound the New York; at San Pedro, Calif., the Idaho, just overhauled at Puget Sound...