Word: andorra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoary, leather-faced council members and First Syndic (president) of the tiny 190-sq. mi. territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...
...offered to build Andorra a modern sanatorium for the 5,000 inhabitants...
Informed by French rustics that he could not get to Andorra through the mountain roads, buried 20 feet under snow drifts, he snorted: "If I had my null der car which cost $32,000 I'd go through these roads like a tank...
...hour later, tongue in cheek, he was fibbing to a comely girl with a pert purple hat. "I'm a delegate from Andorra," he said. She looked at him blankly. "It's in the Pyrenees," he explained...
With their black berets jammed on their heads, clutching their steel-tipped walking stick-sheep goads, the young men of Andorra crowded into the tiny State's Council chamber last week and broke a 1,000-year old precedent. Since Charlemagne Andorra has been an autonomous State, but a State in which only the heads of land-owning families could vote. No man could vote whose father was still living, and Andorran shepherds and smugglers (leading industries) are almost indestructible. Faced by the menacing crowd of vote-seekers last week, the Andorran Councillors-who govern with "advice" from...