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Originally Dr. Olaya had arranged with the State Department to come out of his ministerial cocoon as a butterfly head-of-state in mid-June. Unexpectedly the State Department learned that Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil, planned to return President Hoover's goodwill visit in mid-June. The prospect of two Latin-American Presidents-elect simultaneously in Washington unnerved the State Department's master of protocol to the point of requesting Dr. Olaya to advance his transmogrification...
...Forbes has long been prominent in the government. In 1904 he was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Philippine Commission and in 1908 he became Vice-Governor of the Philippines. A year later he was appointed Governor-General. In 1914 he accepted the appointment as receiver of the Brazil Railway Company...
Other Sephardic Jews fled to South America. In 1654 a few reached Manhattan from Brazil and at once established the Spanish & Portuguese Synagog?North America's first. Until 1825 it was the only synagog in Manhattan. By that time sufficient German Jews had drifted into the community to organize Manhattan's first Ashkenazic congregation, B'nai Jeshurun.* Since then waves of northern and eastern Jews have spread over the U. S. and bred until last year U. S. Jews numbered some 4,230,000. But only 40,000 are Sephardic Jews, and most of these migrated from the Near East...
...Excited Spanish soldiers bungled the refueling at Seville. Instead of the expected northeast trades off the African coast, came head and beam winds. Torrential downpours near the Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America "Zep-minded...
Last week France gave 'her answer when Pilot Jean Mermoz and two companions flew the Paris mail into Santiago, Chile, in four days. Compagnie Generale Aeropostale announced a weekly schedule, weather permitting. from Toulouse, France, to Santiago via Senegal, Brazil and Buenos Aires. Craft used: a Late 28 seaplane powered with 600-h. p. Hispano-Suiza engine. Significance: France will concentrate on heavier-than-air craft with immediate returns while other nations undertake costly dirigible experiment...