Word: gaucho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making some 20 instruction films for the Navy; for the Army he has turned out a series of films on airplane identification, is preparing another on the Nazi invasion of Poland. For fun and good neighborliness he is turning out twelve on Latin America (one of them: El Gaucho Goofy) to be commercially distributed...
...homogenous herd is to remove suspicions inevitably occurring because 7,000 miles and many conflicting aims separate the U.S. and Argentina. Uppermost in the minds of foreign ministers packing last week for the consultative conference in Rio de Janeiro Jan. 15 was the question: "Would the cowboy and the gaucho get together...
...genius like Hitler, no actor like Mussolini, but a shrewd, opportunistic, honest politician, with a sincere desire to improve the lot of his people and not too many scruples about the means he employs. Brazilians say he can take off his socks without removing his shoes. He is a Gaucho from the rolling cattle country of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost of Brazil's 20 federal States. His father who is still living was a General and Getulio grew up in Sao Borja, where lived his present Foreign Minister, Oswaldo Aranha. To this day Oswaldo Aranha...
From the broad river Plate, that waters the land of the gaucho, to the sleepy borders of the Rio Grande, 120,000,000 Latin Americans last week came smack up against a fact. The fact was comforting to some, disquieting to others; but to all it was as huge and undeniable as Popocatepetl: that the U. S., either as Good Neighbor or as Colossus of the North, was definitely on the move...