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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things, but not of the mysterious author B. Traven, the secret of whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe. In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until his Treasure of the Sierra Madre was made into a splendid movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Secret of El Gringo | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...ahead, though this time the main conspirator looked more like Fanny Farmer than Cassius. She is a serious Midwestern schoolmarm, with a bent for poetry, baking cakes, and puttering in a garden. But if Miss Lenore Geweke (pronounced gave-a-key) has her way-and she well might-Latin beginners all over the U.S. will no longer fight their way through Caesar's trim, tight prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Arma Virumque . . . | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Mexico faced the situation which has already begun to confront most Latin American countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Peso Off the Peg | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...difficult steps that are required, i.e., balance its budget, tighten credit, soak up idle money by higher taxes. If the government can do this, a new and sounder peso-at perhaps six or seven to the dollar-may be established. If so, Mexico may be one of the first Latin American nations to wring the water out of its economy and get down to sound living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Peso Off the Peg | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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