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...less apparent but no less potent price-boosting force, especially on imported goods, was the new foreign-exchange schedule of the peso announced by Finance Minister Alfredo Gómez Morales. The most spectacular jump was in the free market rate, which went from 9 to 14.25 to the dollar. At the same time, many import restrictions were taken...
...Belgium, then down the French coast, Italian tactics seemed to be paying off. Bartali was close to the leaders, and the Italian team had won five of the first nine laps. The French team had won only one lap, and French partisans began to get restless. When Italian Alfredo Pasetti won the ninth lap, Bordeaux fans greeted him with shouts of "Macaroni" and "Dirty Fascists...
When 26-year-old Father Hermogenes Coronel came to the sleepy little parish of San Rafael in 1940, no one welcomed him more heartily than Alfredo Musni. The priest took a room in Alfredo's house, became fast friends with Alfredo, his wife and his daughter Gloria. Later, Father Coronel and Alfredo's brother-in-law entered a business partnership to found the San Rafael Academy. In 1946, Alfred Musni enrolled blooming 18-year-old Gloria in Father Coronel's school...
...Father Coronel's own answer was an emphatic no. True, he told the court, he and Gloria had gone through a marriage ceremony before a justice of the peace in 1948, but there were at least two invalidating circumstances: i) the marriage was never consummated; 2) Alfredo Musni was holding a gun at his back at the time. After the ceremony, Father Coronel said, he returned to his parish, finally managed to slip away from the ever-watchful Musnis and escape 600 miles away to Zamboanga. Last fall, after church authorities had declared the marriage void, Father Coronel returned...
...Plain Blackmail." Alfredo denied that the marriage of Father Coronel and Gloria was a shotgun affair, claimed instead that the priest himself had suggested that he marry Gloria when he learned she was pregnant. Said Alfredo: "I even asked him how it was possible for a priest to marry, and he said there is no law against it, that in America they do it all the time...