Word: aleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struck a snag. He wanted control of a minority interest owned by four rich young Manhattan socialites including John Wanamaker Jr. and William Rhinelander Stewart Jr. The young men slept all morning, went to parties in the evening, could not be brought together in one place in the afternoon. Aleman Saylor worked nearly four months before he got them into a hotel room one midnight, made them sign. Mr. Saylor became president, general manager, largest stockholder of Canada...
Once there were roses in the streets for him (TIME, Jan. 2). Nothing was too good for el Aleman ("The German") who checked Paraguay's steady advance through the pest-ridden Chaco swamps. With more men, more money, better guns. his troops beat off Paraguayan attacks on Bolivia's Verdun in the Chaco. muddy, ramshackle Fort Saavedra (TIME...
...control the party machine of the Liberal Party of Santa Clara Province. Santa Clara's boss is now Juan Antonio Vasquez Bello, Machado henchman and brother of Machado's late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman to demand a duel (illegal in Cuba). Aleman chose seconds and primed his pistols. Groaning, President Gerardo Machado sent for Brother Carlos, told...
...Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that it was El Aleman, the German-there is only one German to the army of Bolivia. Immediately thereafter La Paz reported that General Kundt had personally inspected every section of the Gran Chaco front. Bolivian troops had their first definite success in months, recaptured Forts Bolivar and Jayucubas from hard-fighting Paraguayans...
...market. Merry Mount, an opera dealing with the conflict between Puritans and Cavaliers, will be given by the Metropolitan season after next. Rochester's Howard Hanson wrote the music, Richard Leroy Stokes, critic of the defunct New York Evening World, the libretto. In Paris Alonzo (godsgate) Elliott, the Aleman who wrote "There's a Long, Long Trail,"- is busy making an opera out of Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's riproaring What Price Glory? In Vienna Composer Robert Russell Bennett (Kansas City) will spend the summer writing music for a libretto by smart, versatile Robert A. Simon...