Word: eugenio
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...first time in the school's 132-year history that a faculty member had been thus honored, the ninth time in a half century that St. Louis University had granted an honorary degree to anyone. (Among previous recipients: Marshal Foch, Belgium's Cardinal Mercier, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, now Pius XII.) "He has been more than a teacher," read the citation. "He has been a symbol...
...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
...last week the doughty Guatemalans had come forward with a counter-threat. Under the presidency of Foreign Minister Eugenio Silva Peña, independent planters had discussed a new marketing cooperative to export bananas independently of United Fruit. Once, that would have signaled war without question. Now there would probably be a compromise. Explained Sam Zemurray: "We adjust...
...Ambassador Alexander Kirk, smartly correct in dress and speech, was with them. Catholic Mr. De Gaspari's Communist Under Secretary, Eugenio Reale, was not. In halting English, Minister De Gaspari asked when his stricken country would get economic relief, whether there was any chance of an early German armistice. As the Vatican's No. 1 lay politico, he also asked: what about Russia? Harry Hopkins listened in friendly silence, answered no questions...