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...Henry Ford steamed home from their vacation in England (TIME, April 16, et seq.) aboard the Majestic, upon which they were again listed under the alias of "Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson." Meanwhile at Para, Brazil, the newspaper Folha de Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a rubber plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...
...Brazil last week newspapers, politicians, and businessmen quarreled bitterly over the 50-year concession recently granted Henry Ford to cultivate rubber trees in the Amazon basin. By his contract he is permitted to engage in domestic and foreign trade without duty...
...Bacteriophage-a living by-product of the development of bacteria which has the power of destroying the bacteria when they reach a certain concentration (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). The bacteriophage of bacillary dysentery has been employed by the Oswaldo-Cruz Institute in Brazil to eradicate bacillary dysentery in that country...
...other members of the "original 8": Arthur B. Davies, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn, William J. Glackens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, George Benjamin Luks. Five of them are Philadelphians...
...countries to be represented are, according to the latest reports of the executive committee for the convention, England, France, Germany, Russia, China, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Holland, Switzerland. Scotland, Brazil, Porto Rico, Armenia, Irish Free State, Denmark, Greece, India, Bulgaria, and Korea...