Word: antenor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part, Tin Baron Antenor Patiño was far from displeased. His plan was working out. When the company rehired its miners, it would hire only non-union labor, no "agitators." That would break the National Federation of Tin Miners...
...Patio one of the world's five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...When Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
...marriage palled. Antenor and Cristina parted, then became reconciled. Last year Antenor agreed to give Cristina $500,000. He also promised her another $500,000 if he should abandon her "without cause." Last week, in a Manhattan court, Cristina charged that Antenor had been running off to places like Palm Beach and Colorado Springs with one Francesca Simms, a sultry American model. This, said Cristina, constituted abandonment. The court agreed, ordered Antenor, now in London...
...Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...