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...this and nothing more is accomplished the meeting will have served a purpose, for it was through a lack of understanding that the plans for a union were rejected. Brazil would accept no reduction of her navy to the size demanded by Chile's plan, claiming that Chile, with her mountainous coastline, is sacrificing nothing in cutting her navy. The league plan failed because some states favored the existing League of Nations and others, notably the United States, considered that the Monroe Doctrine already adequately fulfills the purpose of a league...
President Bernardes of Brazil: "I sent a message of congratulation to The New York World, which promoted the New York-to-Rio flight of Pilot Hinton. I referred to aviation as 'that enterprise in which the Americans are unsurpassed- having given wings...
France, Belgium, Spain and Brazil have preceded us in similar attempts to gather for permanent preservation all the really excellent work of those artists, authors, sculptors, and architects which the Immortals may deem worthy of recognition. The American Immortals are fifty in number, and form "a comradeship of the leaders of the arts in America". It is the decision of this group that they recognize everything for its esthetic value, regardless of the public popularity or vogue that it may have. In this way only the truly literary and esthetic records of the nation are chosen...
...Afranio Amaral of the Instituto Soroterapico, "Butantan", of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will speak on "The Treatment of Snake-bite" this afternoon at 4.45 before the Biological Club in Room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory. The lecture will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe...
...fame, in the flying ship Sampaio Correia II calls attention to another air achievement which will help to restore popular confidence in the commercial possibilities of long distance flying. The flight of the Sampaio Correia over the five and a half thousand miles between Pensacola and the capital of Brazil was accomplished in little over a hundred hours...