Word: ecuadorian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more troublesome than the three rich and handsome sons of the late President General Don Leonidas Plaza.* Last week the eldest son, Galo Plaza, onetime Minister of Defense, was in exile in California. Once urged to declare himself dictator, he is now willing to be "drafted" as President if Ecuadorian politics will only settle down. The second son, Captain Leonidas Plaza, who earned a captain's commission in a bayonet charge during the war with Peru, was in Garcia Moreno penitentiary under 16 years' sentence for participation in an abortive revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement...
...sterling credits to redeem the ?365,700 balance ($1,473,800) of 5% Transandine Railway bonds, raising the total bonds repatriated from London since Nov. 1, 1941 to the tidy sum of ?4,100,000 ($16,523,000). By coolly outbidding the U.S., Argentina bought up the bulk of Ecuadorian rubber to help keep its tire factories running. And at week's end Madrid announced a new accord with Argentina for: 1) exchange of Spain's industrial goods, machinery and chemicals against Argentina's badly needed surplus foodstuffs, to the tune of some...
...Ecuador, as in Peru, there has been some dissatisfaction over the settlement, since neither country got all it claimed. Ecuadorians charged that Peruvian soldiers pillaged El Oro before they evacuated, but observers noted that the Ecuadorian Army had also followed a scorched-earth policy when it retreated last year. The only losers seemed to be the inhabitants...
...books-Koestler's novel and Auden's poem -made a dead-center philosophical attack on the real problems of 1941. But sometimes the philosophies have not the last word. One writer who is less pretentiously touched with genius than any of them is Ludwig Bemelmans. His Ecuadorian travelogue, The Donkey Inside ($3), was the most delightful book of a far from delightful year. This month he published his even better-written Hotel Splendide ($2.50), a collection of waiters' eye-views of life in a great hotel...
...jacked prices to $2.20 for the second. She is the only agent who specializes in artists who shuttle between concert hall and nightclub. Members of her stable: Tap Dancer Lawrence, a Trinidad dancer and Calypso singer named Belle Rosette, a Negro singing quintet called the Sophisti-chords, three dancing Ecuadorian Indians...