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...Died. Señora Herminia Arrate de Dávila, wife of Carlos Dávila, onetime president of Chile and Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., who upon President Roosevelt's intervention last December was flown from Manhattan to her Chilean home in a U. S. Army bomber; in Santiago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

First they went sightseeing in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Washington. Said a señorita: "I never dreamed I would walk into heaven and be greeted by so many angels." Said an Ecuadorian engineer: "The burlesque! They are very good in Washington, but Philadelphia ees the best . . . what you say-plenty hot. ... A keese here is just a keese. Een Ecuador the keese is most wonderful thing. Here the girl, she keese the boy-that ees wrong. Een Ecuador the girl, she get keesed-ah, that ees good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another visitor, invited to a freshman party, told his colleagues that he had a date with "the fresh people." Asked in class to name something that could be seen and touched, Señor Luis Samiento replied: "My wife, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...last week the South Americans were full-fledged U. S. collegians. Some were on the staff of the Daily Tar Heel, some in the chorus of an undergraduate musical comedy. Crowning gesture of good will: Chilean Señorita Sylvia Goich, running against five campus beauties, was elected queen of North Carolina's annual student-faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...issued an unflustered statement. The resolution was contrary to President Roosevelt's foreign policy, to Pan-Americanism and to the opinion and decision of all Cubans, said he, adding that "the admirable policies of President Roosevelt . . . have profoundly consolidated confidence and union among all the nations of America." Señor Cortina knew, if all Latin Americans did not, that Senator Smathers is a windbag whose opinions influence no other Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Good Neighbor Smothers | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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