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Church Proper. During the past year, 72 new branch churches were formed, in such places as Kenya, Cairo, Brazil and Australasia. Twenty-six Christian Science societies qualified as churches. The Mother Church has now 2,639 such branches. Financial statement: fat balance to begin with; nearly $4,000,000 received during the year; more than $4,000,000 disbursed; balance on hand as of last April, $1,864,699.12 in general and trust funds. Every year the Mother Church elects a nominal president. Last week Miss Mary G. Ewing of Brookline. Mass.* succeeded onetime Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine...
...nation had formally declared war since the League of Nations was founded. Paraguay, which has been fighting Bolivia in the steaming sponge of the Gran Chaco jungle for eleven months, took the brash step. A few hours after Bolivia had formally rejected the peace overtures of neighboring Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, pudgy President Eirebio Ayala of Paraguay issued a proclamation...
That sentence revealed Paraguay's strategy. It forced Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to declare neutrality, thus cutting off landlocked Bolivia from importing munitions. Paraguay on the broad Parana River, which like the Amazon is an international waterway, can bring supplies straight up from...
...hotels, drinking rooms, barber shops, banks, the legend was pasted above maps of the world, on which the course of the seaplane Santa Maria, captained by Commander Francesco de Pinedo ("Messenger of Italianity," "Conqueror of the Air"), was charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New Orleans, thence across the desert to Roosevelt Lake. Ariz. There careless mechanics let gasoline spill out on the water. A numskull gawper flipped a cigaret and Pouf! The seaplane Santa Maria was no more...
...white monoplane glided down upon Maceio, Brazil, 125 mi. southwest of Pernambuco one day last week and a strapping Polish officer climbed out. He tried to explain to natives that his name was Stanislaus Skarzynski, that he had just flown across the ocean. Presently his story was confirmed. Cable dispatches, slower than the white monoplane, drifted in from Senegal, West Africa, stating that Capt. Skarzynski had taken off for South America...