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...after day, month after month, clouds of oily, aromatic smoke billow up from the dumps on which Brazil's Government continues to burn coffee in a frantic effort to support its price. Last week the Government announced that since June 1931 over 14 million bags (containing 132 Ib. of coffee each) have been destroyed- the greatest wilful, peacetime destruction of property on record...
Today Santos coffee sells for around 8? per Ib. It sold for an average price of 10 7/10? in 1932 (partly because of the favorable effect of Brazil's most bloody revolution), fetched in 1931 not quite...
When Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving II was born into Baltimore's famed Episcopal family 38 years ago, his father was Bishop of Southern Brazil. Growing up there, he was nicknamed "Tui"-Portuguese diminutive for Arthur. He went to Episcopal High School in Virginia, and to the University. A cousin who followed him a few years later became "Little Tui." Off to War v:ent "Big Tui," to serve in the French ambulance corps for two years and finish as a U. S. first lieutenant. He returned with a Croix de Guerre, sold bonds for a time, entered Virginia...
...polo-players or bankers. But Rev. Ovid Americus Kinsolving (1823-94), descendant of British settlers in Tidewater, Va., set a record. He gave to the church four sons, four grandchildren, one great-grandson. Of the sons, two are dead. The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, longtime Bishop of Brazil and father of "Big Tui," was tall, handsome. It was customary for graduates of Virginia Seminary to hand their diplomas publicly to a girl, but for his there was such competition that he gave it to his mother. The late Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, also tall and, like...
Each stirring announcement was followed by a hot denial from the country supposed to have been injured. Brazil, the big neutral adjacent to Leticia, sent a commission to investigate the only victory that seemed authentic: Colombia's capture from Peru of the town of Tarapaca, 100 mi. north of Leticia. Boasting of this victory, Colombians claimed that "80 Peruvian soldiers fled from Tarapaca into the jungle where they are starving. Every few days a famished Peruvian comes out of the jungle and begs permission to surrender...