Word: az
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...district; he rounded up the hundreds of Frenchwomen who then monopolized the Barrio Coloón and shipped them back to Europe. The only practical result was that a horde of grateful native operators moved in. Last week another Minister of the Interior, husky Lomberto Díaz, 40, was getting better results...
Until Díaz came along, hardly a night passed in the rollicking, jazzy, bawdy barrio without a drunken fight, a shooting or a knifing. Under the conniving eyes of well-bribed cops, numbers-game runners and dope peddlers did a rich trade. From the doorways, women of all shades hawked their wares to a passing throng of awed countrymen, city slickers, roistering sailors and bottle-brave tourists...