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...Montevideo, Uruguay, when a boxer failed to appear at a charity boxing match for the Allied Red Cross, tall, grey-haired British Ambassador E. Millington-Drake shed coat but not tie, put on the gloves, sparred a few rounds with Señor J. Ambrosini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Diplomacy. Feeling that the oil game was at last oozing his way, Foreign Minister Hay took occasion to reply to a note in which Secretary Hull recently suggested that perhaps Mexico would now be willing to arbitrate her seizures of U. S.-owned oil, mining and farm lands. What Señor Hay had to say was "No!" He notified Mr. Hull of the Sinclair deal, suggested that other U. S. oilmen are at liberty to make similar deals, flatly declared that the Government of Mexico "considers arbitration incompatible, since the matter in dispute is of a domestic nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Oil Deal, Oil Note | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Rochester was very patient with autograph hunters, but when somebody suggested he sign a blank check for them, he replied. "She will, buddy, but I tell you, if you can get it cashed, boy, we'se partners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh, Harvard, Where Dat Smokah? Is Rochester's Cry After MIT Abduction | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

...into a diplomatic pouch and sent it by airplane to Mexico City. There the Ministry of Foreign Affairs read it, made a careful copy for study, forwarded the original to the State of Oaxaca, where President Lázaro Cárdenas was on a tour of inspection. Soulful Señior Cárdenas read it, said nothing but that he would "answer at an opportune time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cool Water on Oil | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Dance La Conga (Columbia). Four-disc set of congas played by the orchestra of Desi Arnaz, the supple Latin glamor boy of Broadway's Too Many Girls. An accompanying set of instructions by Arthur Murray is intended to show purchasers how to conga almost as well as Señor Arnaz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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