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Latin-Americans never disliked North Americans as a people, but did heartily abhor many of their policies, according to Dr. David Vila, professor of Ethnology at the University of Guatemala, newspaper man, and good-will ambassador sent by the Nelson Rockefeller Officer of Pan-American affairs...
...Vila, who in on a four-month tour of the country, in now visiting here, where he spends most of his time in the Pea-body Museum. But he took time out to enjoy the boxing championships Friday night...
During his stay in New York, Dr. Vila was impressed by the "great hurry" of everyone there. "It is so unlike us Latin-American," he said. "In my country there is nothing that can not be put off for a day. Writing a letter, studying, anything can wait...
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...
When Franklin Roosevelt, an old friend of Carlos Dávila, heard how things stood, he knew exactly what to do. By executive decree he set aside the Army's rule that women cannot fly in Army planes, put a four-motored Boeing bomber at Senora Dávila's disposal. One day last week an Army ambulance rolled Carlos Dávila's lady out to Mitchel Field, L. I. With a crew of eight, accompanied by her husband, an Army surgeon and a nurse (Olympia Fumigalli), Señora Dávila took...