Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neutral Against Whom? Elated by the bill were pro-Axis landowners, with eyes still fixed on post-war markets, and Chilean industrialists, suffering from lack of U.S. export licenses. The Rios regime was turning out more Rightist than they had hoped. Senator Fernando Alessandri Rodriguez had whipped behind the President the full support of the Rightist Liberal Party. Semi-Fascist Falangists had begun to appear in key posts. Rightists were trying to get rid of Socialist ministers, one of the most pro-U.S. groups in Chile...
...Fernando Ortiz Rubio, playboy son of rich ex-President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was back in the clink again last week under the fanciest charge...
Maudlin affection nourished: tall, hulking Fernando Ortiz Rubio threw himself on Governor Zárate's neck, kissed his hand, blubbered: "You have been a real father to me." Then the conversation turned to futurismo. In Mexico futurismo is no esoteric art-cult; it is the highly practical question of who is going to succeed whom in political office. Only seven months in his job, Governor Zárate thought the choice of topic indelicate. He moved resentfully over to the bar. Equally hurt, Fernando followed him, relieved his offended feelings by drawing his pistol on his political papa...
Last week he got bored. Slipping out of prison in what State Prosecutor Luis Angel Rodriguez termed "an inexplicable manner," Fernando tossed off a few tequilas with some friends, then vaulted the garden wall of the widow of the man he had killed and set about earnestly serenading her. He was finally collected, plopped back into jail under an additional charge of trespassing. Senor Rodriguez further announced that, in addition to serenading the woman he had widowed, Fernando Ortiz Rubio had written "improper expressions" on the wall of her house...
Well fortified, with its 1,089-foot Pyramids looking far to sea, Fernando de Noronha should make a bristling outpost between South America and Dakar. On the six-by-two-mile island there is already a small airfield, built by Air France before the war. Since the war began, Brazil has been building hangars and fortifications...