Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from his perch, moved in on the Statue of Columbus (see cut). Their resentment grew when they learned that the Paseo would have a two-foot strip down the middle, planted to nopal and cactus. "These are the only places where pedestrians may now take refuge," screamed El Universal, "and they fill it with cactus...
Married. Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehedi, 42, Caliph of Spanish Morocco; and Princess Lal-La Fatima Zohora Bent Muley, 22, British-educated, tradition-flouting (she never covers her face, Moorish fashion) daughter of the late Sultan of Morocco; each for the first time (his concubines do not count); in a three-week-long, $600,000 ceremony financed by the Spanish government (Franco gave the newlyweds a $200,000 home); in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...
...because, when Evita Peron visited Madrid two years ago, Father Benitez was a much sought-out member of her party. Madrid's press fairly sizzled. Ya wrote: "It makes one wonder whether the priest's mother had a weakness for a Frenchman." Editorialized Bilbao's El Correo Espanol: "A bilious and ill-adapted clergyman...
...public levy problem, however, is not so easily solved. Since 1918, the cities and towns through which the El ran absorbed the yearly deficit. But these lesses had been reasonable; the towns could pay them off without too much difficulty. Now the towns cannot cover the MTA excess expenses without raising their own property tax rates. Consequently, they have rebelled against the old system...
...solution seems to remain--a fare increase. Though the EL consistently lost money, it never raised its fare above ten cents. In the 1948 gubernatorial election, Dever accused ex-Governor Bradford of planning to boost the fare; because of the implications that Dever could get around the deficit some other way, the present governor has now a political obligation to keep the ten cent rate...