1932 CARLTON BEALS, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AMERICA TODAY?"

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2- THE EXECUTIVES' CLUB, CHICAGO NEWS LETTERS from 1932
The newsletters introduced the speaker of the week and the following week's newsletter, included the detailed presentation.  Both newsletters are included in this listing.
The presentation for the week of OCTOBER 21, 1932 was:
"WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AMERICA
AND LATIN AMERICA TODAY?
BY CARLETON BEALS
WORLD TRAVELER, AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST
AN AUTHORITY ON MEXICO, SPAIN, AND SOUTH AMERICA
Some information on Mr. Beals:
Carleton Beals (November 13, 1893 – April 4, 1979) was an American journalist, author, historian, and political activist with special interests in Latin America. A major journalistic coup for him was his interview with Nicaraguan rebel, Augusto Sandino in February 1928  In the 1920s he was part of the cosmopolitan group of intellectuals, artists, and journalists in Mexico City. He remained an active, prolific, and politically engaged leftist journalist and is the subject of a scholarly biography.
Beals was born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. His father, Leon Eli Beals (1864–1941), lawyer and journalist, was the stepson of Carrie Nation, the temperance movement advocate.  His mother was Elvina Sybilla Blickensderfer (1867–?).  His brother, Ralph Leon Beals (1901–85), was the first anthropologist at University of California, Los Angeles.
The family moved from Kansas when Beals was age three, and he attended school in Pasadena, California. After graduating from high school in 1911, he worked a variety of jobs while attending the University of California, Berkeley where he studied engineering and mining. He won the Bonnheim Essay Prize and the Bryce History Essay Prize.  After graduating cum laude, he attended Columbia University on a graduate scholarship, earning a master's degree in 1917.
In February 1928, Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation, sent Beals to Nicaragua  to write a series of articles. He became notable as the only foreign journalist who interviewed General Augusto Sandino during Nicaragua's 1927–33 war against US military occupation. Unable to find work as a writer, Beals took a job with Standard Oil Company, but it did not suit him. In 1918, he spent a brief period of time in jail as a World War I draft evader. Upon release, he decided to go see the world, and with what little money he had, Beals and his wife Lillian drove to Mexico. There, he founded the English Preparatory Institute, and taught at the American High School. They left Mexico in 1921 for Europe where Beals studied at the University of Madrid, and then the University of Rome. Back in Mexico, he became a correspondent for The Nation, separated from his wife, and became romantically involved with photographer Tina Modotti's sister, Mercedes.
In all, Beals wrote over 200 magazine articles for publications such as the New Republic and Harper's Magazine.  Beals also wrote more than 45 books, including on history, geography, and travel. Some of his books are written for a juvenile audience.[15] His autobiography, Glass Houses, was published by J.B. Lippincott Company in 1938. In 1931, Beals was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for biographies.  His biography subjects included Porfirio Díaz, Huey P. Long, Roberto de la Selva, Stephen F. Austin, John Eliot, Carrie Nation, and Leon Trotsky.
During his career, Beals witnessed Mexican revolutions, lectured on Shakespeare, and was held incommunicado by a Mexican general.His travels took him to French Morocco, Tunisia, Algiers, Greece, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Germany, and the Caribbean. He was a Ford Hall Forum speaker in 1936, and a member of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky in 1937. The following year, Time Magazine called Beals, "the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America."
During the 1960s, he supported the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Beals was a hero to the young people of Cuba.
Each newsletter is 8 pages long and are both, in are in nice condition.
Some information about the Chicago Executives' Club:
Established before World War I, The Executives’ Club of Chicago has witnessed this Midwest city’s rise as a magnet for global businesses over the past 100+ years. Today, members acknowledge The Club as one of America’s top business forums
1911—1939
Distinguished by its sandy brick facade and the elegant white mantle of its top floors, the Hotel Sherman stood on the site that now holds the Thompson Center. Throughout the 1910s and roaring ‘20s, the hotel was one of Chicago's premier nightspots. While the live jazz played there wafted through its College Inn restaurant and attracted celebrities, tourists, and members of high society in the evenings, it was during the day that members of The Executives’ Club met each week in a small banquet room.
In its early years, The Club’s core members discussed among themselves the affairs of the day and the business impact. In sharing their experiences, they sought ways to learn from one another and work with each other on the business front. Perhaps they discussed new ventures that could benefit from the success of Chicago’s retail companies, or examined the strategies that enabled utilities magnate Samuel Insull, through his leadership of Commonwealth Edison, to expand the company’s hold on electric power in the Midwest.
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