Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JOHN F. STEPHENS, M.D. San Antonio...
...Lisbon correspondent, Piero Saporiti, his wife, their belongings, and a lame dog, turned up in Paris a few weeks ago somewhat the worse for wear. They had been kicked out of Portugal because Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar disapproved of TIME's July 22nd cover story about himself and his regime...
Butcher shops felt the full weight of buyers' disdain. Prices fell rapidly in most cities. When the price of a pair of pajamas was quoted at $5.75, a San Antonio bank clerk snapped: "I'll keep on sleeping in old shirts instead." Boston's R. H. White department store, which for years could not keep any bedroom furniture on its floor, got a carload at the beginning of the week, still had almost all of it at week...
...executioner was U.S. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, 43, of San Antonio, a short, chunky man who in his 15 years as U.S. Army executioner has hanged 347 people. Said he afterwards: "I hanged those ten Nazis . . . and I am proud of it. ... I wasn't nervous. . . . A fellow can't afford to have nerves in this business. . . . I want to put in a good word for those G.I.s who helped me . . . they all did swell. . . . I am trying to get [them] a promotion. . . . The way I look at this hanging job, somebody...
...Minneapolis, Denver and San Antonio were centers this summer of the worst epidemic since...