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...Texas and found his man- tall, slender, greying-haired George Charles Butte of Austin. Born in California 53 years ago, the new Vice Governor was educated at Heidelberg and Paris. He had special qualities to please his President: 1) he can speak Spanish fluently; 2) his service as Porto Rico's Attorney General (1925-28) proved him a good colonial administrator ; 3) as dean of the law school of the University of Texas (1923-24) and as a special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General (1928-30) he showed himself a scholarly lawyer; 4) though...
...Cuba, five; Czecho-Slovakia, one; England, 25; Finland, one; France, ten; Germany, ten; Greece, five; Guatemala, City, one; Hawaii, ten; Ireland, two; Italy, four; Japan, ten; Korea, two; Latvia, one; Lithuania, one; Norway, one; Nova Scotia, six; Palestine, four; Panama, one; Peru, one; Phillippine Islands, one; Poland, four; Porto Rico, five; Roumania, two; Russia, six; South Africa, four; Spain, four; Sweden, three; Switzerland, six; Syria, one; British West Indies, one; Turkey, five; Venezuela, three; Yugoslavia...
...York & New Jersey (including also the missionary districts of Porto Rico and Haiti): Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires (Long Island...
...with a kitchen, so operators may live through a Nebraska blizzard. Outside on poles are miles and miles of antenna wire. One great loop is suspended 60 ft. above the flat ground. New York is brought into range with a Beveridge directional antenna. Other loops are pointed at London, Porto Alegre Brazil, Moscow, Sidney...
...carry somebody on their shoulders. Their "Al" Smith was 400 mi. north, and before he became President would be 800 mi. away in Rio de Janeiro. But fortunately he had left behind a young man, one Osvaldo Aranha as acting president of the state. To his office in Porto Alegre rushed the joy-mad mob, carried him with roars of triumph to the Grande Hotel, put him on a balcony. Three times the young man tried but failed to speak, so full was his heart...