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Appetizer. In Los Angeles, Ponciano Pena slipped through a 13th floor jail window, was balancing on the tenth-floor ledge when he was lured in by a jailer, who remarked that dinner was served...
Skillful propaganda, coupled with this aid, makes capital of the Chaco's misery. And the misery is real. Presidencia Roque Saenz Pena has 4.000 people on relief at $1.50 per person per year. Cosecheros (Argentina's Okies) pour in to work in the fields, but less than one-fourth of them find work. Company-store prices are double to treble the prices at ordinary stores, and the cosecheros are paid in bonos, valid only at these stores...
...Senate Chamber to forestall a quorum, force him to resign (TIME, May 31). Last week after considerable backtracking, President Illas did resign and the Senate went back to work. Elected as his successor, on the potent recommendation of Army Boss Fulgencio Batista, was Liberal Senator Lucilo de la Pena. Promptly Colonel Batista sent his mouthpiece President Federico Laredo Bru to Congress with a whopping $78,856,000 budget, $21,000,000 of which is reserved for Boss Batista's Army...
...down to their cellars and produced about a half million dollars worth of Renoirs, and at the Gallery of American Indian Art, a show of water colors went on view by the darling of Santa Fe's art colony, the plump and talented Pueblo squaw from Cochiti, Tonita Pena...
Orthopedic Surgery: Buenos Aires, Dr. Jose Vails; Montevideo, Dr. Prudencio Pena; Bogota, Dr. Jose M. Montoya; Havana, Drs. Alberto Inclan, Pedro Sanchez Toledo...