Word: uruguayan
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...presence of President Getulio, Vargas of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro diplomatic corps, three judges-a U. S. citizen, a Uruguayan, a Finn-passed on ten final sets of plans from Great Britain, the U. S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, for a memorial lighthouse to Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo. When they agreed, they gave the $10,000 prize and a contract for his design to a 24-year-old Briton, one J. L. Cleave of Nottingham...
...There is nothing more for me to do in Argentina," said he to the Belgrano's commander. "I had better go." But, although the Uruguayan Government had been officially advised that the Belgrano would bring Dr. Irigoyen to Montevideo, she remained anchored last week, swinging irresolutely at her chain off Buenos Aires, the exile of Irigoyen being delayed until some spot should be found where he would not be too welcome...
Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...
Boston University Frederick Neal Dow, banker LL.D. Harry Emerson Fosdick, clergyman (Baptist) LL.D. Francis John McConnell, bishop (Methodist Episcopal) LL.D. Albert Enoch Pillsbury, lawyer LL.D. Jacobo Varela, Uruguayan Ambassador LL.D. Frank Alexander Home, banker LL.D...
...TIME'S best boosters in South America I have often shown your magazine to my Uruguayan friends as the outstanding information publication of my country. Consequently, after boasting proudly of TIME'S accuracy in reporting even minor events of interest, I was quite astonished to read in my copy of Dec. 3, just received, on page 7 under "Chief Yeoman," that Mr. Hoover's complete itinerary included Montevideo (URAGUAY...