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...tough hombre is Joe Mendoza, private, first class. Once he licked a truckload of taunting soldiers one by one. On Attu last month Joe Mendoza came upon an unarmed Jap cowering behind a rock. Joe started to shoot, but his sense of fair play got the better of him. Throwing down his rifle, he whipped out a knife. Then he tossed the Jap a bayonet and beckoned him to come on. This act of gallantry frightened the Jap more than the prospect of death itself; he ran. Joe Mendoza, conscience free, shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Code of Mendoza | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...performances of other jazz improvisers. He did this by listening to their phonograph records, carefully transcribing what he heard into a musical score, then playing his score on Imperial's perforating machine. Today Imperial issues pianola rolls by such jazz artists as Fats Waller, Ted Baxter and Pete Mendoza. All are ghosted by J. Lawrence Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Roll On, Imperial | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...thrown by the Ambassador to the U.S. of the first allocatee-to-be: Venezuela. His guest list included State's Dean Acheson, Economic Defense Board's Assistant Director Colonel Royal B. Lord, and two big visiting Venezuelan buyers of supplies (Central Bank President J. M. Herrera Mendoza and Caracas Chamber of Commerce Vice President Andrés Boulton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allocation & Champagne | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...globular survey" last week appeared to be coming out of the woods. This week EDB will present to OPM Venezuela's itemized 1942 needs for strategic materials and machinery. No non-strategic items were included, and the list was pared to the bone by Señores Mendoza and Boulton, rechecked by Colonel Lord's office. The agreed-upon total (10% less than Venezuela's actual purchases of similar U. S. materials in 1940): $39,543,700 worth of goods, ranging from $30,000 in steel doors for the vaults of the new Central Bank of Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allocation & Champagne | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Mendoza, after the man who, according to Boca legend, landed at that very spot when he founded the city of Buenos Aires. In a studio on the third floor Quinquela Martín himself painted and directed the school's activities, agreeing to foot the bills for the museum as long as he lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Orphan Boy to President | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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