Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeking to increase the understanding of Latin American countries by undergraduates, the University and the Experiment in International Living have combined to offer four scholarships of $500 each to enable the winners to spend a summer in Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Guatemala, or Mexico, according to a statement released last night by Dean Hanford. The statement follows in full...
...Four scholarships of $500 each are being offered by the cooperation of the Experiment in International Living and Harvard College to enable a few students to accompany one of the Experiment Groups which will spend the summer in one of the following countries: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico. The purposes of the scholarships are to provide students in the United States with an opportunity of studying the culture of a South American country through first-hand contact with its people, of making friends in another country by living in selected homes in that country, and of improving one's spoken...
...Guatemala President Jorge Ubico, elected in 1931, held a plebiscite in 1935, extended his term until 1943. In El Salvador Vice President General Maximiliano Hernàndez Martinez took office in 1931 after an Army revolt had deposed President Arturo Araujo. Refused recognition by the U. S., he resigned in 1934, ran for the Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President...
...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...
...Guatemala-born Merida, who for '14 years had painted nothing but abstractions inspired by French modernists during his visit to Europe, surprised Manhattan visitors to the Buchholz Gallery by a complete change of style. His perspectiveless, daguerreotypical canvases, brightly colored and surrealistically childlike, depicted toy hons and paper-doll-like human figures sedately waving the stumps of amputated arms. Critics were not sure that Painter Merida's new style was any improvement over the old, but found his ashy reds, yellows and blues loudly decorative...