Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ezequiel P. Paz, son of the late Dr. José C. Paz, who founded the paper in 1869. (Argentina's oldest newspaper is the English-language Buenos Aires Standard, founded 1861.) Now past 65, childless Don Ezequiel leaves the active management of La Prensa to a nephew, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. Until this year Don Ezequiel spent his winters at a French estate near Biarritz. For the sake of his diet he always carried with him a cow, sacrificed her as his ship entered the Rio de la Plata because of Argentina's strict quarantine against imported cattle...
...General Alberto Pariani, Chief of Staff of the Army and Under Secretary for War. He helped make the Versailles Treaty, was one of the planners of the Ethiopian campaign, introduced the goose step and forebade swearing in the Army, believes in lightning warfare. Pro-Axis, at least outwardly, he conferred with Germany's Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel just before Italy took Albania...
Army Commander: General Alberto Pariani...
...friends long ago went to work to climb these big hurdles, many lesser ones. For the U. S.-glacial Sumner Welles, the high-domed Acting Secretary, and once Embassy Secretary to Argentina (1917-19); for Argentina-Señor Don Felipe Alberto Espil, the raven-haired Argentine Ambassador to the U. S., who wears his white-tie-&-tails with the nonchalance of Fred Astaire, who was once the Duchess of Windsor's constant dancing partner, whose barber lets no sign of his 52 years show around the ears...
...quite reassured. Alberto Salinas Carranza, chief of Mexico's aviation, sent a message to Sarabia by air mail: "I shiver at hearing that you intend to return from Washington nonstop. . . . Continue flying with your head and do not permit your heart to intervene. Conserve yourself for our pride, the satisfaction of your family and the envy of the birds...