Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second regular weekly meeting at Phillips Brooks House Wednesday evening, the newly-formed Harvard International Club, composed of foreign students studying here, heard talks on Latin America by Alberto Lelong of Argentina and Antonio Andrade from Chile...
...indecisive result might prove a tragedy for Chile. Her ailing President (he suffers from stomach ulcers), Juan Antonio Rios, blocked by a hostile Congress, had made little progress in curing the country's numerous ills. No. 1 problem: a soaring inflation...
...Texas Too. In San Antonio, Texans asked if the curfew applied in Texas too, and many added: "If it does, we'll just have to start getting drunk an hour sooner next Saturday." The only ordinary citizens who would really be inconvenienced were swing-shift workers. Many of them thought their lives were uncomfortable enough anyhow; there is something chronically annoying about working from 4 in the afternoon until midnight...
...adulteries among the women she writes about. There is hardly a police captain who hasn't talked to, admonished, and reluctantly sent to jail some of the confused little girls caught in raids on cheap hotels. For the chances are there. Said the pert little sprite in San Antonio: "Manless? Are you kidding? As for the girls in my crowd, it's a major one night, a captain another, and cadets and sergeants and corporals and, O Lord, whoever asked that question wasn't thinking about San Antonio...
Five-Room Start. When Connie Hilton was 16, he was managing a five-room inn for traveling salesmen over his father's general store in San Antonio, Socorio County, N. Mex. (pop. 760). The rent money put him through college. At 21, Hilton was elected to New Mexico's House of Representatives. He enlisted with the break of World War I, became an Army lieutenant, and fought in France...