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...modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at the outdoor Wayside Shrine of the Passion which he founded near his church in Kearny, N. J. Father Preston was well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high, that Brazil dedicated last year its 130-11. Christ the Redeemer, world's largest, on Corcovado Mountain near Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931). Why not something even bigger for the U. S.-a bronze statue 150 ft. tall, to cost $500,000 which would be raised by the pennies...
Collecting human heads in Brazil has its little amenities and points of courtesy, Matthew Williams Stirling, Smithsonian ethnologist, told Washington's Anthropological Society last week. He spent eight weeks with the head-hunting Jivaros, "a simple, rather kindly people," who notify their enemies of intended raids. The "victims" at once dig pitfalls and set trap guns along forest paths, post watchdogs around their tribal house, hide indoors with their women and children until the attack begins...
...which ended the War . . . the carving of twelve new nations from three old empires . . . the increase of standing armies from two to five million men . . . revolution in China . . . agitations in India . . . Russia's dumping . . . gigantic overproduction of rubber in the Indies, of sugar in Cuba, of coffee in Brazil, of cocoa in Ecuador, of copper in the Congo, of lead in Burma, of zinc in Australia, of oil in the U. S. . . . new wheatlands in the Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts.. . . Declared President Hoover...
...friendly fashion, though not as if nothing had happened. Brazilian bankers gathered in bright, glamorous Rio last week to count the monetary cost of Brazil's ''bloodiest civil war in South American history" (TIME...
...great fact last week was that Brazilians are again each other's friends. Their bankers opined persuasively that "the inflation has not been sufficient to affect commerce." Amid national rejoicing President Getulio Vargas reopened Santos Harbor, Brazil's famed coffee port, blockaded throughout the civil...