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There were also a few Mexican artists of ability who had never paid much attention to politics. Two of these last week had one-man shows in Manhattan. They were 48-year-old Carlos Merida, who painted cactus and Aztec idols before Rivera did and 32-year-old Expatriate Federico Cantú, who dwells in Greenwich Village...
Baldish, roly-poly Federico Cantú, once an apprentice of Muralist Rivera, filled 57th Street's Guy Mayer Gallery more conventionally, with cactus, horses, ban-doleered soldiers and bedraggled peons. Best painting: a tropically rank portrait of Mexican Singer Aurelia Colomo (see cut), who carols tropically in the bar of Manhattan's Hotel Weylin...
...brilliant, impatient Finance Minister Federico Pinedo, who has a plan for the long-term refinancing of Argentine industry by the Central Bank of Argentina and the Government. Most Conservatives are against the Pinedo Plan because they fear its provision empowering the Government to mobilize private bank funds. Radicals are against it because they believe that Pinedo, an ambitious Conservative politician, wants to use it to ride into the Presidency in 1944. Nevertheless, with some difficulty and some pruning, Finance Minister Pinedo pushed his plan through the Conservative-dominated Senate. To get it through the Chamber of Deputies, which...
...weeks later, the new era came to an end. Argentine Finance Minister Federico Pinedo picked this time to talk cold turkey to Buenos Aires sales agents of U. S. exporters. Said he: "If you want more dollar exchange for United States exports to Argentina you must produce it by buying more of our products." To drive home his point, Minister Pinedo brought to bear a kind of pressure he has used before : he cut off dollar permits to importers of U. S. manufactures. Immediately three U. S. auto-assembly plants came back with an announcement that without sub-assemblies irom...
...months until Cuba's courts could pass on the evidence. But last week Cuba's Supreme Court, which fortnight ago had admitted the legality of the 2,000 complaints, revoked its decision, changing its mind for the first time in the history of the tribunal. Outgoing President Federico Laredo Bru, longtime Batistaman, ordered the Superior Electoral Tribunal to certify those candidates not specifically affected by the complaints-including Fulgencio Batista. Colonel Batista announced his Cabinet, drawn from four of the five parties of the coalition that nominated him, and stated he was "the happiest man in the world...