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Carlos Guillermo Dávila is a Chilean newspaperman who became an Ambassador, once (in 1932) served for three months as President of Chile. When Chilean Army airmen threatened to drop bombs on the President's palace, Dávila resigned. He has lived in Manhattan ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Good-Neighborly Gesture | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...exile is Newsman Dávila. He is a sort of unofficial Chilean Ambassador, through his Editors Press Service, Inc. makes big medicine for Franklin Roosevelt in Latin America. Last week Carlos Dávila was on his way back to Chile in a U. S. Army bomber. With him went his wife. Herminia Arrate de Dávila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Good-Neighborly Gesture | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...months ago Señora Dávila fell ill, had one operation, then another. Physicians told her that her best hope for recovery was to return to Chile. Last week in Chile it was summer, and the warm sun of her native land might strengthen Senora Dávila's waning vitality. But she could not stand a long sea voyage, or the comparatively slow flight by Clipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Good-Neighborly Gesture | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Nerves 8 Brain: Lima, Dr. Honorio F. Delgado; Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Gustavo Riedel; Havana, Drs. Armando de Cordova, Elpidio Stincer, Juan Portell Vila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pan-American Doctors | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...unfortunate enough to witness the spectacle, which was too barbarous and ghastly to be described," said Second Officer Herbert Mimms. "About 170 people were present, including natives and the entire French population of Vila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Frog-Blooded Execution | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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