Word: hora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Pedro Aguirre Cerda's La Hora put full responsibility for success of the plan up to the U. S., declared that democracy, as based on "existing economic, financial, commercial and industrial regimes," was less important to Latin America than to the U. S., since "these countries have not been able to change their position as countries producing and exporting raw materials and consuming, of necessity, foreign manufactured articles." Therefore, it concluded, the U. S. must be prepared to "finance the development of our republics-and without any charge whatsoever-in necessary amounts to give shape to the suggestion...
Serious musicians know The Carnival of Venice as a florid soprano air. Dinicu's Hora Staccato as a Rumanian showpiece for concert violinists. Last fortnight these two pieces went into an RCA recording studio in Manhattan and got lost somewhere in the groove. Even the names were changed: to Heavy Traffic on Canal Street and Coo-Dinny-Coo. This Victor recording provided the light-fingered New Friends of Rhythm with one of its most successful jam sessions to date...