Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleeing not from the Leftist siege but from two officers of their own side, Captain Cortes and Lieutenant Ruano, who had set up a rule of military terror in the convent, throwing into musty cells the starved and sick who wanted to surrender. During the siege, 21 children were born in the Virgin's Sanctuary...
Bosses. For the first time since he was born in a farmer's hut in Oriente Province 36 years ago, full-blooded Fulgencio Batista was without a boss to chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions...
...Born. To British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 64, famed sex libertarian; and Countess Patricia Helen Spence Russell, 26, his third wife and onetime secretary; his second son; in London. She was named co-respondent in the divorce won by his second wife who had meantime had an illegitimate son by a journalist...
Married. Gina Malo (Janet Flynn), 30, Cincinnati musicomedienne; and Romney Brent (Romulo Larralde), 35, Mexican-born comic with whom she is playing in On Your Toes; in London...
...Nebraska-born President-elect Jeffers went to work for the U. P. in 1890 as an office boy at 14, successively rose to be train dispatcher, chief dispatcher, superintendent, general superintendent, operating vice president, executive vice president. Last week he declared: "I would rather be president of the U. P. than President...