Word: ayala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one section of world Jewry took the Government's list calmly. In Palestine, young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah- Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman...
...person to the very border of Bolivia proper. Something seemed wrong when their commanding officer, General José Felix Estigarribia, marched them home to poverty-stricken Paraguay, when Foreign Minister Luis Riart signed a modest peace protocol with Bolivia, when the Paraguayan Congress approved it and when President Eusebio Ayala ordered the Paraguayan Army demobilized and Bolivian prisoners returned to Bolivia. The Army had won the war; the politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco with organizing a so-called National Front of 42,000 War veterans and planning a coup...
...around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat whence he radioed his resignation. He was confined in the marine barracks...
Troubled with gallstones, Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles summoned Dr. Abraham Ayala Gonzalez, chief of the Federal Health Department, to his ranch in Sinaloa. Minister of Communications Rodolfo Calles chartered an airplane, flew with his father and Dr. Ayala Gonzalez to Los Angeles. There General Calles was operated upon, his condition afterwards declared "very satisfactory...
...settled" the conflict. Facts are that a long-suffering League of Nations Commission has been wallowing about in the swamps between Bolivia and Paraguay. Its members, the major, the two generals, the count and Spanish Chairman Alvarez del Vayo began by conferring in Asuncion with Paraguayan President Eusebio Ayala, a onetime professor of philosophy. They wallowed across the Chaco battlefield and were in La Paz when harassed President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia received the awful news that his main army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME, Dec. 25). To the League...