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...lest this private political fight serve as an excuse for another term of U. S. occupation. Accordingly, a Somoza spokesman last week broadcast the plea: "Let us solve our own problems. Let us shed our own blood." U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull replied, to pointed inquiries from Chile and Peru, that the U. S. had no intention of intervening in Nicaragua for the sake of the U. S.'s puny ($13,000,000) investments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Private Fight | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...from Los Angeles down around South America, and after riding out a hurricane, through the sinister Straits of Magellan. Once ashore, they had a long, hard trip by truck and horseback to get to the mountain sheep-ranch they were heading for, almost on the border between Argentina and Chile. The man they sought was known variously as "El Jimmy," "El Gringo Malo" or "El Ingles." Native of a Berkshire village who had come to Patagonia after some mild poaching affairs and more serious trouble with a girl, his real name was James Radburne. He characterized himself, with modest firmness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Case | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...London the weekday rate will be $21 for three minutes, on Sunday as low as $15. A similar reduction will apply on calls from Manhattan to Paris, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Lima, Peru. The present $33 charge to Berlin and Santiago, Chile, will be cut to $24 on weekdays, $18 on Sundays. Where it now costs $21 to call Panama City or Guatemala, the reduced rates will be $12 and $9. To London, Paris and Berlin, U. S. telephone subscribers may call at night for the same price as the Sunday charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cheaper Three Minutes | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...John McKendree Springer, for 35 years a missionary in Africa, was consecrated a missionary bishop, sent back to his field in the Congo. Another outlander simultaneously consecrated was Rev. Roberto Elphick, elected bishop some months ago by the Methodists of Chile and Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of Columbus (Concl.) | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...only person who seemed at all sure of himself was chipper Senor Rivas Vi cuna of Chile. "Well, I at least have my orders," said he. "Chile will vote to lift Sanctions as soon as the motion is offered, and I have been instructed to raise the question myself if the proper opportunity arises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Stall | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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