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Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...
...population as a mere puppet of Wall Street. In Venezuela, where the U. S. has enormous oil interests, rules senile Political Boss Juan Vincente Gomez, a more cruel tyrant than Dr. Irigoyen ever was. Brazil is saddled with the worst overproduction situation (coffee) in the whole western hemisphere. Chile with her nitrates is apparently quiet in a dictator's iron hand. In any of these countries revolutions might result in the seizure of power by a group determined to resist what so many South Americans call "Yankee Imperialism...
Continuously since 1919, off and on since 1908, Augusto Bernardino Leguia has ruled Peru. In that time he has raised Peru to a position in South American affairs only second to the potent ABC powers, Argentina, Brazil, Chile. A network of railways, fine roads have been built. The oil and copper industries have been developed. Peru (not all his compatriots regard this as a blessing) has been opened up for foreign capital. With the aid of U. S. diplomats the 46-year-old Tacna-Arica boundary dispute with Chile has been settled. The disadvantages of the Leguia regime...
...Editor. Waldo David Frank celebrated his forty-first birthday Aug. 25 by making more plans for presenting South American literature to the U. S. in small doses. Ten or more books of which this is the first, are to appear and bring the best from Brazil, Peru, Chile, and others, culled by him, edited by him. Since leaving Yale in 1911 with B.A., M.A. and Phi Beta Kappa key, he has applied his erratic literary ability to many matters. With the publication of Virgin Spain in 1926 his name as a Spanish authority was made, his interest in things Spanish...
...Pennsylvanian by birth (1873) and residence, Chairman Fletcher is a diplomat of 27 years' able foreign service. As a career man, he rose to be U. S. Ambassador to Chile (1914), Mexico (1916-20), Belgium (1922-24), Italy (1924-29), served as Assistant Secretary of State (1921-22) in charge of economic matters. The commercial aspects of international relations especially in Latin America have had much of his time and attention. He resigned as Ambassador at Rome last year, disappointed, some said, because the Hoover Administration had apparently neglected...