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...European and African, headed by Hector Lazo, executive director of the Cooperative Food Distributors of America. Open warfare adds to EDB's responsibilities. It corresponds to Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare, which directs bombing operations on the European continent. EDB experts must be able to tell Major General Brereton's Far Eastern squadrons which Japanese factories are most worth a load of bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EDB Swings into Action | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...small section from the prolific output of Hector Villa-Lobos has been released this month in an album by Victor. The works chosen, while not the very best of this composer, do give an idea of his versatility and individualty of style. The first number, an Introduction, Prelude and Fugue for eight cellos in the style of Bach, called "Bachinas Brasileras," shows Villa-Lobos's ability to absorb influences and still remain fresh and vital. The cello is his own instrument, and the magnificent sonorities he wrings from it in ensemble approach at times the effect of a full string...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 5/7/1941 | See Source »

...Luis Potosi to avoid persecutions of local caciques. Señora Higinia Cedillo Gonzales, who helped her brother, General Saturnino Cedillo, revolt and tried to do the same for Almazán, was reported kidnapped or murdered. Government men ransacked the house of Almazán's Provisional President General Hector F. Lopez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cardenas & Almazan Out | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

From New York aboard the S.S. Argentina sailed the military chiefs of the two most powerful Latin American countries: General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro of Brazil and General Guillermo Mohr of Argentina. With them was the returning Argentine aeronautical purchasing commission headed by Major Hector...

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

...Andreu Almazán the next President. To clinch its claims it went even further. Finding Cárdenas in violation of the Constitution for "using public force to impose Avila Camacho and by rendering his last address before a congress of usurpation," it named its own substitute, General Hector F. López, to fill out the remainder of his term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Two-Party System | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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