Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor Liberal politicians died where they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...
...game will actually be televised by the NBC station WNBT of New York and will be relayed to Boston; Wilmington, Del.; Lancaster, Penn.; Providence; Washington, D. C.; Philadelphia; Schenectady, N. Y.; and Richmond, Virginia...
...steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores del...
Congressman Murphy and Mrs. Murphy had just dropped into the capital by air. Meanwhile, six other U.S. Congressmen were welcomed over the border in Catalonia by a brass band and flower girls. Then they proceeded to Barcelona, accompanied by Pablo Merry del...
...York and Congressman Poage of Texas announced: "We want to find out for ourselves about freedom of religion in Spain." They attended services at a Protestant church; a third visitor went to a synagogue; a fourth went to Catholic Mass. "What was your impression?" inquired suave Merry del Val. Replied the Congressmen: "We are going to have a talk with certain correspondents back in Washington." They obviously referred to correspondents who, they thought, had exaggerated religious suppression in Spain...