Word: alejandro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy a boycott movement was started against U. S. cotton. Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., publicly complained that his country would be hardest hit by the new tariff, cited the fact that out of 81% exports to the U. S., the duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...
Decorated. Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House; with the Royal Order of Isabella la Catolica; by Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; for services to art. Last year she was given the order of Alfonso XII, conferred also for artistic distinction...