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...week discovered and scotched a plot to overthrow it. Warned in the nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
This flurry of hard-boiled peso-diplomacy reminded postwar planners that expansionist nationalism is not dead, that all may not be Wallace-sweet in the postwar world...
...something over 70,000 people paid one peso each to view El Fakir. They included 25 doctors (a vacationing U.S. doctor tried to wiggle El Fakir's toes, caused him much pain), five bull fighters, 65 Mexican cinema actors, one ex-President (Portes Gil), two boxers, two wrestlers, and a lady editor from the erstwhile antagonist Novedades, who wrote: "After knowing him I have been enchanted." A radio station broadcast reports of El Fakir's condition and a movie theater combined a newsreel of El Fakir with Disney's Bambi...
...official rate of the peso used for "products not regularly exported" (e.g., novelties, furniture, etc.) was raised from 23.7? to 25.2? (the rate for "regular" exports like wheat and beef remains at 29.8?). This brought the "non-regular" peso into line with the booming "free" peso (the unregulated exchange now used for capital movements not connected with exports and imports...
...Eppenauer's Gob: the 10,000-peso ($2,000) Inaugural Handicap, opening-day feature of Mexico City's resplendent new Hipodromo de las Americas (TIME, Feb. 15); before a crowd of 44,000, largest in Mexican sports history...