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First they went sightseeing in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Washington. Said a señorita: "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 »

...arrival in Guayaquil was announced in the morning paper, with picture. The title was "El Señor Bnelemaas"; the picture that of James Cromwell, who, says Bemelmans, is "the Ecuadorian ideal of the typical North American." Later, in a Quito paper, Cromwell appeared as Russell Davenport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baby in the Jungle | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...gunboats, three coast-patrol vessels, twelve river gunboats, two transports. Not on the Caribbean, but close enough to the Panama Canal to be important, is Ecuador, with a small Army of 7,500, a potential war strength of 48,000. An Italian military mission, which had been instructing the Ecuadorian Army for 15 years, was sent home after Italy entered the war last summer. The U. S. now has an aviation mission there, as well as a naval mission to instruct 400 men how to operate the training ship Presidente Alfaro, which was bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Arms and the Man | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Ecuador. Despite Nazi-inspired editorial condemnations, Ecuador has expressed wholehearted enthusiasm for continental commercial interchange. But Foreign Minister Dr. Julio Tobar Donoso will be grinding his own Ecuadorian ax at the conference, will attempt to solve border differences with Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Gentlemen, Be Seated | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...European Economic Space), extending from Gibraltar to the Vistula and from the Norwegian coast to Sicily. With equal assurance, German steel companies offered steel to South American countries at prices considerably lower than U. S. quotations with a cash guarantee of delivery by October, and Hamburg shipping firms advised Ecuadorian cotton mills to have extensive orders of cotton ready for shipment to Germany on German vessels by September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Blitz-Peace? | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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