Word: chan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This was the land that brown-skinned young Carlos Morelos grew up in, and where he learned about the simple duties man owes to man, of Chan, the Nacheetls' God of the Universe, and of Jesucristo Salvador too. But when he left his village and moved to the capital, Carlos ran up against a lot of other matters, and almost all at once. There were such puzzling things as the political democracy of John Locke, the Marxian dialectic and the news (slightly belated) of the atomic bomb. Author North seems to think that it could happen that way almost...
James A. Farley and Eric Johnston have been steadily asking for government loans and direct ERP relief to Spain since the beginning of last year. In October, 1948, Senator Chan Gurney, head of the Senate Armed Services-Committee, demanded a military alliance with Franco. At the same time Secretary Marshall stated that we would be willing to allow Spain to join the UN. The State Department has been quictly but steadily permitting private banks to loan Franco money...
Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight...
...Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Connecticut's Raymond Baldwin, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith, Oregon's Wayne Morse, California's William Knowland, Minnesota's Edward Thye, North Dakota's Milton Young, South Dakota's Chan Gurney, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey. They had their own candidate for Taft's job as GOPolicy boss: Massachusetts' tall, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge...
...World War I; of a heart attack; in Fremont, Ohio. In his 20 years as a mercenary, Hall flew for six nations but never for the U.S., in 1933 was jailed for 2½ years when as an adviser to the Chinese Nationalist air force (he called himself General Chan), he was convicted of taking off with...