Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went...
...finance the huge Italian Communist Party, the biggest west of the Iron Curtain (estimated 1,600,000 members). "The party cannot exist on dues," says Reale frankly. Apparently, however, the profits have been too big for individual Communists to leave solely to the party. Two years ago Augusto Doro was accused of making lucrative side deals for personal gain while manager of the oldest Red trading agency (SIMES) in Milan. Shortly afterward Eugenio Reale himself quit all his party offices, including his key post overseeing the foreign-trade agencies...
...midweek the Guatemalan government announced that it had captured documents and secret codes, and Interior Minister Augusto Charnaud MacDonald portentously declared: "A plot-one of the best-organized conspiracies in the history of the country-has been unearthed. Those arrested were the vanguard of forces based on foreign soil." The plot, whether real or fancied, was convenient, and it roused the regime's supporters to demands for action. The Communist chief of the peasants' union called on his followers to be ready to join a rural militia to shoot antiCommunists. And Communist Congressman César Montenegro Paniagua...
...government had offered a prize of 1,000,000 lire ($1,600) for the best plan, recommending that the offending garage "be considered an object of special study." Both artists and government hope to get the Via Margutta back to the way it was, as the late Roman poet Augusto Jandolo (1873-1952) described it: "A quiet street, anything but severe; just made for work and for love...
...Name. The actual party leaders are no fiery Mussolinis but a couple of unexciting Fascist wheelhorses: Giorgio Almirante, head of the five-man M.S.I, bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, a thin, drab man with ferret eyes and a receding chin which he remembers to thrust out periodically; Secretary Augusto de Marsanich, who dotes on being remembered as one of the original squadristi who ''marched" on Rome...