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Results. Sixteen Powers discussed the naval positions of Russia, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Greece. The results showed that only four cases were left unsettled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Navies of the World | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

However completely without honor in its own country, the American movie has received a fost favorable welcome in South America. The people of Brazil have recently announced that they will have neither German films, with floors, walls and ceilings meeting in such fantastic juxtaposition, nor French films, which put them to the necessity of censoring most of the interesting parts, nor any kind of film, in fact, but American-made ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILDREN CRY FOR IT | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...Brazilians have learned that all our wives are foolish, all our youth is flaming, and all our sunsets are obscured by an enamoured couple locked in a long and lingering embrace. In America, the chief effect of this sort of stuff is a certain softening of the brain. If Brazil can eat it up, as after all, America, eats it up too and get away with it, without the accompanying cerebral debility, Americans will be the first to rejoice and incidentally, to profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILDREN CRY FOR IT | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...placed in the hands of Rear Admiral Palmer who, during the War, served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and later as Chief of Staff of a division of the Atlantic Battle Fleet. After the War he resigned. He was made Shipping Board Director for Brazil. Of late he has been attached to the Washington offices of the Board. On Jan. 5 he was to have sailed for London to represent the Board abroad. Instead he stays to be dictator over the Government's shipping policy as no Chairman of the Shipping Board has ever been- Denman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Dictatorship? | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

Professor Oliver Farrington, also of the Field Museum, found fossilized bones of a fantastic toadlike creature, probably the extinct megatherium, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The animal when alive weighed 500 pounds, was twelve feet long and two feet wide, squatted on short thick hind legs and had long, sharp teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossils, Bones | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

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