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This paper presents evidence on the demand for money in Chile for the period 1935 to 1963. Ibis economy has experienced a growth history and a monetary history that are quite different from those of the United States and many other western countries. However, the economic structure appears to be sufficiently similar to those of more developed economies that comparisons may be made between the results of this study and those obtained elsewhere. Chile offers a particularly interesting experiment for the study of monetary phenomena because the variables that are of critical interest—real money balances, real income, and the cost of holding money—have undergone large variation through time and thus provide an excellent set of observations for statistical analysis. The movements of the important variables are summarized in Table I. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organized by the Circulo de la Prensa, or Publishers Social Circle, of Valparaiso, Chile, under the auspices of the National Journalists Association of Chile, the "First Hispanic-American Press Congress" was held at Valparaiso, Chile, from January 8 to 15, 1937. Journalists from Spain and all countries on the American continent were invited to the conference for the announced purposes of promoting international good-will and trade as well as the interests of newspapers and journalists. The congress was held in connection with the commemoration of the Fourth Centennial of the founding of Valparaiso, and delegates were offered substantial reductions in transportation and housing costs as special inducements to attend. Delegates at the conference either represented publications or assisted in their private character as journalists. They were grouped according to nationality, with one vote allowed to each country represented. The conference adopted fifty-three resolutions. The congress resembles several previous convocations which have attempted to organize journalists of the western hemisphere for mutual assistance and public service.

The article focuses on the process of opinion research in Uruguay and Chile. The introduction of attitude research and opinion measurement in countries where they have never been used before must be made in terms of local conditions. The geographic situation, the administrative and political aspects of government, and the social institutions constitute a cultural complex which cannot be approached without awareness of its peculiarities. The two experiments reported here concern countries at diverse stages of demographic evolution and economic development. Without overstating the scope of the national stereotypes evoked in such responses, it does not seem to be drawing too much from the data to find in these attitudes, and in their conflicts among various social groups, signs of a transformation in the Chilean mentality. As the processes of urbanization and industrialization continue, the psychology of groups is altered proportionately. It is in any case demonstrated that an immense task is opening to social psychology in countries like Uruguay and Chile, which are well armed for confronting it.

The common theme underlying most theories on lower-class leftist extremism views this orientation as dependent on frustration with life situation. Employing data collected in lower-class slums of Santiago, Chile, five theories bearing on this notion are tested. None is supported. Leftist radicalism, however, is associated with imputation of responsibility for frustrations to the social structure. Results support a definition of radicalism as a complex orientation requiring antecedent cognitive variables for its emergence. The popularity of the frustration-radicalism hypothesis is interpreted as a partial result of the post-factum self-legitimation of successful revolutionary movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]