Word: quito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four weeks ago President Enriquez tackled the problem of press censorship by announcing that complete freedom of the press had been reestablished, appointing an annual Newspaper Men's Day, anniversary of the founding in 1792 of Ecuador's first paper, The First Fruits of Culture of Quito...
...colleague, President Roosevelt, that higher, not lower, wages are needed (see p. 7), he decreed that private concerns must give raises of 15% for all employes earning less than 300 sucres ($24) per month, 10% to all earning 300 to 500 sucres. In the streets of Quito cheering, barefoot peasants wildly waved the "Panama" hats that are Ecuador's chief export manufacture...
Supplementary to his main theme of disillusionment are random bits of history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...
...days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they saw more than a trace of autobiography...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news Back to Manhattan, after working four months in Hollywood, went Author Ben Hecht to put his play To Quito and Back in rehearsal. Said Author Hecht: "When...