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...been largely Frenchified. The Fahnestocks could not find what they most wanted: a nose-flute. But Tahitians are distinctive guitar players, and have a trick of chanting double-talk to get in the groove before cutting loose. They also like to take a Western tune and Tahitify it. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay was one the Fahnestocks gave them; it came cut Ta-ra-ra...
Last month a committee of the Chamber of Deputies, headed by young Raúl Damonte Taborda, submitted a report showing that Ambassador von Thermann had received funds from these societies (TIME, Sept. 8). Last fortnight Investigator Damonte followed this with a report on the expenditures of the German Embassy. The figures were enough to make the Argentine press and Chamber of Deputies see swastikas...
...three months since 32-year-old Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda began a Dies-inspired investigation of anti-Argentine activities he has stealthily and steadily crept closer to Argentina's cuckoo nest: the German Embassy. Last week Deputy Damonte thought he had his hands on the biggest cuckoo in the nest...
...this escape was to make Argentines hopping mad at the German Embassy and all its works. Conservatives in the Chamber of Deputies hitherto had been leery of Investigator Damonte's work because it made political capital for the Radicals. Three days after Gottfried Sandstede's flight Raúl Damonte submitted a report signed by all members of his committee, including the Conservatives. Findings...
Raids & Riots. In Buenos Aires, Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda's newly formed equivalent of the Dies Committee staged a series of pre-dawn raids, seized files, pamphlets, maps, books of instruction on fifth-column activities, Nazi flags, radio sets and thirty Germans, including one Hein Froehling, who was supposed to be director of Nazi underground activities...