Word: pepe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five oppositionist deputies in Mexico's new Congress comes from Monterrey. It is no secret that his election was mainly due to the well-organized vote of the independent unions. But Monterrey also hopes for much from President-elect Miguel Alemán. José (Don Pepe) Muguerza, the driving chieftain of the "brewery group," campaigned for him, admires him as an administrator and for that quality most urgently required by the regiomontano, "ability to get things done...
...Pepe Le Moko," from which United Artists made "Algiers" in 1938, is in most ways a better picture than its carbon copy. United Artists knew a good thing when they saw it, and they took large chunks--still recognizable shots, and in some cases apparently the very same sets--of the French original as a backdrop for Boyer, Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, and Gene Lockbart...
...Pepe" is less dressed up than "Algiers," just as "Forgotten Village" is less finicky than, say, "How Green Was My Valley." It is helped, too, by having a Jean Gabin kind of cast: "Pepe's" characters are not the technically standardized characters of the Hollywood cloth. It's a refreshing change, despite some fast French and a few sloppy English titles...
...minute radio program TIME has gotten up. It is called Aprendamos Inglés, and it aims to help people in Spanish America learn English painlessly-by letting them listen in on some informal talk between a North American called Joe Bishop and his South American friend, one Pepe Obispo...
Within the residential bastion, Pepe grinned and settled down for a long siege. He planned to remain out of circulation until Aug. 10, when Congress convenes. At that time the President's dictatorial powers for maintaining the status quo will automatically expire. Congress, he hoped, will save him from Police Minister Aguilar, from President Arroyo del Rio and from confinement at Guaranda. Said he: "I did not pledge my word to return. . . . They even refused to clean my cell lest I should have someone to talk...