Word: da
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomats gasped. It was an action such as is seldom taken unless war is imminent, and it occurred because a small Czechoslovak factory refused to fill a commercial order for the Government of Portugal. Although Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, who ordered his Minister José da Costa Carneiro to leave Prague is a dictator and therefore unaccountable, the chancelleries of Europe were astonished at his action...
...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...
...da ushered in a six-week run of opera at the Cincinnati Zoo. Busy Fausto Cleva was again conducting. Manager Oscar Hild had got hold of such Metropolitan singers as Bruna Castagna, Carlo Morelli, Leon Rothier, Norman Cordon, John Gurney. Friday operas were to be broadcast over the NBC Blue network...
Brazil's Vargas had more to comfort him last week than the prospect of a rest. Big, swashbuckling Governor Flores da Cunha of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, who rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship...
Died. Afonso da Costa, Portugal's Wartime Premier; in Paris. His life threatened after he helped force the abdication of King Manuel in 1910, he was ousted by a coup d'état in 1917, again exiled in 1926 while he was President of the League of Nations Assembly...