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ALBERT B. FRANKLIN Quito, Ecuador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...first organized visit of its kind to a U. S. university, 109 men & women of seven South American countries (Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay) had arrived to spend their summer in a special six-week "summer school" at North Carolina. Their trip was arranged by the Institute of International Education and Grace Line (which cut rates in half) and was aided by the U. S. State Department and South American governments (which paid some of the students' expenses). The students-undergraduates, teachers, doctors, lawyers, social workers, newspapermen, an army officer-had come to study chiefly the English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...orita: "I never dreamed I would walk into heaven and be greeted by so many angels." Said an Ecuadorian engineer: "The burlesque! They are very good in Washington, but Philadelphia ees the best . . . what you say-plenty hot. ... A keese here is just a keese. Een Ecuador the keese is most wonderful thing. Here the girl, she keese the boy-that ees wrong. Een Ecuador the girl, she get keesed-ah, that ees good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Ecuador for its segment of Inter-American highway $1,000,000, an additional $150,000 to fight a cocoa worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Mr. Pierson Pitches Woo | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...that began with Confessions of a Nazi Spy (see p. 70) has done U. S. cinema relations with Latin America no good. Latins are largely leery of any kind of propaganda that may give offense to Axis nations. Confessions of a Nazi Spy was banned in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, several Central American countries. Mortal Storm was prohibited in Costa Rica, Guatemala, has not yet been passed in Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latin Uproar | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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