Word: critica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Natalio Botana, 53, publisher of Buenos Aires' evening Critica; of auto-crash injuries; in Jujuy, Argentina. He built Critica from an obscure sheet to one of South America's biggest...
...Rockefeller projects have come to happy fruition. Worst boner was the launching of a $500,000 advertising campaign in Latin-American newspapers to persuade tourists to visit the U.S. The newspapers were carelessly chosen. Fat advertisements went to Axis-sympathizing papers while U.S. sympathizer like Buenos Aires' Critica and Rio de Janeiro's Vangnarda were neglected. Worst of all, in view of the high rate of dollar exchange, asking Latin Americans to tour the U.S. was a horrid joke...
...courses of 20 injections under the guidance of Dr. Francisco Romero. He will not reveal the formula of his vaccine, says it is made by neutralizing tubercle bacilli from human sputum with a special chemical. The vaccine, he holds, stimulates production of tuberculosis antibodies. Last fall the newspaper La Critica took up Pueyo's cause. The National Department of Hygiene promised to experiment if he revealed his formula. He refused. A newspaper row started. Then patients took matters into their own hands...
...Valiant words!" cried a "war bulletin" issued by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires Critica thought differently, headlined its report of the speech: VARGAS, WITH FASCIST LANGUAGE, JUSTIFIES THE AGGRESSION OF THE BARBARIANS. In Washington, the State Department refused to get excited, intimated that Getulio was talking for domestic consumption. That was what the Brazilian Press & Propaganda Department said. Getulio himself assured the President by cable that his speech could "in no sense be regarded as contradictory" to the Charlottesville address...