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...country in the world. After teaching economics for 13 years at the University of North Carolina, he was appointed director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce by President Roosevelt in 1934. He sat in with State Department officials on the drafting of reciprocal trade treaties with Cuba, Belgium, Brazil, Haiti, Sweden, Colombia. Gentle, pipe-smoking President Murchison saw clearly the impossibility of damming Japanese cottons with further import duties. Restrictions strong enough to affect the Japanese would be absurdly unfair to European exporters, and U. S. policy forbade a sharply discriminatory tariff...
...issue of TIME published a letter signed by Willie Weaver of Curityba, Brazil, in which he refers to the gentleman from Illinois who had asked TIME (Nov. 30) for the location of a monastery to which he, tired of the world, might retire. I am not questioning Mr. Weaver's right to form an opinion of the man from Illinois; that is not our quarrel. When he sets out upon a haughty castigation of monasteries in general, however, I can but draw the inevitable conclusion: Willie's education has been sadly neglected...
...know what your correspondent, Willie Weaver of Curityba, Brazil, is doing in the jungles of South America, but I think someone should entice that gentleman to drop his facões and take...
Died. Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour...
...Professor Wyman has established a museum of comparative anatomy; and Professor Agassiz has also a museum, of which the fish collection is superior to that of the British Museum or the Jardin des Plantes, owing to the immense labors of the professor in Brazil. Asa Gray is the Professor of Botany, and, as all botanists know, is the Hooker of the United States. The students of Harvard are singularly fortunate in being able to study zoology, anatomy, and botany under these distinguished gentlemen, who are also skillful and elequent teachers of their respective silences. It may interest some...