Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With asperity Buenos Aires' able Political Colyumist Alberto Gerchunoff declared, "The present Pan-American Conference will probably be known in history as the most mediocre...
...swimming pool, suddenly collapsed on its edge. Revived, he was taken back to Manhattan to recuperate. Also ill last week lay: Film Actress Claudette Colbert, after an appendectomy, in Hollywood; William Hartman Woodin Jr., son of the Secretary of the Treasury, of a heart attack, in Tucson, Ariz.; Alberto Barreras, president of the Cuban Senate, fugitive Machadista, of abrasions suffered when an automobile belonging to New York's ex-Mayor John F. Hylan in which he was riding collided with an ambulance on Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan; Stage Actress Grace George, of a nervous breakdown, in Manhattan; Mahatma Gandhi, unconditionally...
...Carrara marble, decorated by Manhattan's Tiffany Studios. The guns did not fire, but soon Castillo de la Real Fuerza and all other Havana garrisons aimed their guns at the Palace's dome of yellow glazed tile. Subordinate officers told sly, grandfatherly little War Minister General Alberto Herrera that he must tell President Machado to resign. When the War Minister refused he was arrested, forced to promise "on my word of honor as a Cuban, an officer and a gentleman" that he would beard the President...
Married. Consuelo Pani, daughter of Alberto J. Pani, Mexico's Minister of Finance, chairman of the Mexican delegation to the late World Monetary & Economic Conference; and Diego Covarrubias (first cousin of famed Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias), son of the late Miguel Covarrubias, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Great Britain, brother-in- law of Rinaldo de Lima e Silva, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S.; in Mexico City...
...spoke fair English, called me Father Cashin and generally acted as though he knew me. His face was familiar and in checking up I found he used to be one of my boys in Sing Sing, where he used to attend mass and go to confession. Alberto was his name. It seems that he was declared an undesirable alien when he got out of Sing Sing and was deported. Think of me meeting an ex-convict from Sing Sing in Genoa...