Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background to the Simon-Mussolini talks, Italy's Chamber of Deputies was treated to a stirring speech by Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vascello, rapporteur of Italy's Naval budget. Crediting Italy with a 12% reduction of her naval expenditures for the coming year, the Marquis cried: "Elsewhere the vision of peace for which the world clamors is receding. . . . During the useless [Disarmament Conference] discussions at Geneva, the three major naval powers [U. S., Britain and Japan] worked to add new vessels to their fleets. . . . Japan today invades China. Inspired by race hatred she will plan tomorrow against white...
...French general, a British general, an Italian count, a Mexican major and a suave Spanish diplomat named Don Julio Alvarez del Vayo stopped the war between Bolivia and Paraguay (see p. 15) but nearly all their kudos was stolen last week by Montevideo's well-publicized Seventh Pan-American Conference (TIME...
...reader throughout the world jumped to the conclusion that the Conference had "settled" the conflict. Facts are that a long-suffering League of Nations Commission has been wallowing about in the swamps between Bolivia and Paraguay. Its members, the major, the two generals, the count and Spanish Chairman Alvarez del Vayo began by conferring in Asuncion with Paraguayan President Eusebio Ayala, a onetime professor of philosophy. They wallowed across the Chaco battlefield and were in La Paz when harassed President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia received the awful news that his main army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans with...
...Makes Me," "Orchids in the Moonlight," "Carioca." Fred Astaire was hired to dance as frequently as possible. A fleet of airplanes was engaged for a finale with showgirls in gauze uniforms capering on their wings. To play the lead in Flying Down to Rio, RKO wisely persuaded handsome Dolores Del Rio to come out of a year's retirement...
...more sensible than most such chronicles. Flying Down to Rio starts with Belinda Rezende (Dolores Del Rio) sitting in a Miami cafe where a band leader (Gene Raymond) is making eyes at her. When he accepts her invitation to dance, his assistant (Fred Astaire) who pays less attention to music than to hoofing and joking with pretty Ginger Rogers remarks: "Hold your hats, boys.. Here...