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...Surpluses piled up. Fortnight ago, in Montevideo, their delegates sat down at a round table to figure a way out. Present were representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia; as observers, the U. S., Chile and Peru. The meeting called itself the first Regional Conference of the Plata River...
Loud was the outcry from film exhibitors, labor men, party leaders, but the Argentine Government stood firm. Meanwhile, across the muddy estuary of the Plata, progressive Uruguay quietly passed The Great Dictator. Two big river boats were refitted to handle mobs of Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) who made the two-hour trip across the Plata to see the picture. One steamship company offered a special excursion, including a round trip over to the town of Colonia, dinner after the show. Some 100,000 Argentines were expected to see the picture in Uruguay...
Fortnight ago he flew to Mar del Plata and offered to Radical Leader Marcelo T. de Alvear, who was vacationing there, a political truce. Under this new Pinedo plan the chiefs of the two political camps, Radicales and Conservadores, would choose common candidates for the principal offices to be filled in provincial elections this year. For minor offices each camp would run its own candidates. While wily Marcelo de Alvear kept mum, Pinedo let the deal out of the bag and the press and Juan Pueblo waxed indignant...
...magnificent estancia on the Uruguayan side of the Rio de la Plata, across the river from Buenos Aires, Don Aaron de Anchorena held a hunting party last week. Don Aaron's father-in-law owns La Prensa of Buenos Aires, biggest newspaper in South America. His guests were two good friends, Foreign Minister Julio Argentino Roca of Argentina and Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay. They went there, not so much to hunt as to discuss the defense of the Western Hemisphere's most strategic waterway south of the Panama Canal: the Rio de la Plata, which...
Pedro Honriquez-Urena, professor at the Universities of Buenes Aires and La Plata, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will address the recently-formed Pan American Club on the "Social Problems in the Spanish American Novel...