Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico's movie industry, buoyed up by its success in Latin America, was all set to invade the big U.S. market. John Steinbeck's La Perla (The Pearl), in English and Spanish versions, was shot and cut. RKO would soon distribute it throughout the hemisphere...
...sharp-eyed Emilio saved a girl from drowning off a Chicago beach. She turned out to be an Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...
Replied Marcus Goodrich: "If that son of a gun comes up here, I'll pull an old Latin custom on him-bolt the windows and lock in the women. That's what he did to me in Mexico...
...year from Carnegie, Duggan set to work arranging "marriages" between U.S. and European universities, selected the U.S. students to go abroad on scholarships, placed and chaperoned the visiting students, also promoted faculty exchanges. In its first 25 years the Institute placed 2,046 Europeans and Asiatics and 1,131 Latin Americans in U.S. universities, sent 2,344 U.S. students abroad...
Young Duggan will find student scholarships again a one-way street, but with the signs reversed. This year the Institute has brought nearly 1,000 foreign students to the U.S., sent only 65 U.S. students abroad. Reason: few U.S. students want to go to Latin American universities and Dr. Duggan opposed sending them to European universities (which are clamoring for them) until Europe's rebuilding has progressed further. So far, attempts to arrange exchanges with Russia have failed...