Word: cristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong-willed María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, finally wore down her dad's long opposition to her leaving home. She was reported engaged in Madrid to Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu y Bascarán, Marqués de Villaverde, 28, a doctor in the Spanish army...
Some of the music by Americans, like Frederick Woltmann's Songs from a Chinese Lute and Bainbridge Crist's Oriental Nocturne, sounded fine but had little to do with America. But Robert Ward's Gershwinesque, midnight-blue Night Music and Ray Green's jiggy, jazzy, folk-flavored Three Pieces for a Concert were true Americana. Most impressive was Bales's own Episodes from a Lincoln Ballet, a dramatic descriptive work which carried Lincoln through his "Youth and Dreams," to "The Presidency" and "Fame Everlasting...
...Married. Cristóbal de Carvajal, Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as the only descendant of Christopher Columbus, inherits the title of Admiral of the Indies; and Anunciada Gorosabel y Ramírez de Haro, 22, Madrid socialite; in Madrid...
...months, students at Guadalupe had petitioned and protested against dormitories so crowded that 120 slept in a single room, against wretched food, a shortage of water. They had demanded dismissal of the school's director as incompetent and dishonest. Finally brusque Education Minister Cristóbal de Lozada Puga. an anti-Aprista, visited Guadalupe, promised to investigate conditions, warned the students against political agitation. The students went on strike...
...totally different from that of Germany; there will be no "military government" as such. But MacArthur presumably will have under him a chief military superviser, a political adviser, regional chiefs, and a swarm of other functionaries. Already lined up were such able men as Brigadier General William E. Crist, who has been military governor of Okinawa, and Colonel Sidney F. Mashbir, who has made a career of knowing the Japanese in peace...