Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More specific and even better news followed. The BBC reporter had stumbled on a golden horde of paintings from Florence's famed Uffizi Gallery, including works by Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Filipino Lippi, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto. Said...
Italy's forlorn Government shuffled up from Salerno, creaked into a new seat at Rome. Bearded, bitter Premier Ivanoe Bonomi and his fellow ministers held their first meeting in the greystone Palazzo del Viminale. It was an unhappy, feckless af fair. Almost a year after Italy's surrender, little more than a month after the ousting of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's Government had neither power nor responsibility. It could do little without Allied permission. It administered in name, under the cloud of defeat, under the weight of the Allies' unpublished armistice...
...bond. Three days' take: $78,000. ¶ The New Mexico boy or girl who sold the most bonds was promised a day's Governorship of the state. ¶ Major Allen V. Martini, 23, Army Air Forces hero, told 30,000 people in Wilmington, Del., to ask themselves: "What have I done today that a mother's son should die for me tonight...
Under the fist of her dictatorial Government, Ecuador seethed. Suave, power-loving President Carlos Arroyo del Rio had decreed a national election on June 2-3. But everyone in the little Andean republic expected it to be a fraud. The Government had carefully exiled, outlawed or imprisoned the leaders of the opposing Democratic Front. It had strengthened its Carabinero (police) garrisons in the chief cities. By hook or crook it intended...
Dictator Arroyo del Rio resigned, sought refuge in the Colombian Embassy. A provisional junta promptly invited Velasco Ibarra to take over. The exile promptly accepted, rode into Quito in a Lend-Lease jeep. With vivas and flowers, 50,000 Quitenos welcomed their new President. On a balcony overlooking Independence Square, Velasco Ibarra proclaimed...