Word: comendador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he was working on the section in July the Cuban Government, "for relevant and humanitarian service," bestowed on Mr. De Besa the Decoration of Honor and Merit Grade of the Comendador. the same Cuban kudos given last month to Mrs. Ogden Reid, the publisher's ex-secretary and present wife, who runs the New York Herald Tribune...
Because of this peaceful trend, Manila's Mayor Juan Posadas, plump and proud possessor of the title of "Comendador de la Real Orden de Isabel la Católica" conferred upon him by Spain, paid no attention whatever last week when he received an anonymous letter warning him that Manila would burn the following night. The police went to bed and slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb...
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