Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prestes asked the astonished presiding officer, white-haired Senator Fernando de Melo Viana, for permission to speak. He talked long enough to fill 16 newspaper rolumns. He denied rumors that he was conspiring against the Government with former President Getulio Vargas, and he praised Dictator Perón's variety of democracy in Argentina, where the Communist Party is legal...
...curled up. Some 15,000 freed American slaves and their descendants had established a ruling class. As late as 1930, a League of Nations commission discovered that Liberia's Vice President Allen Nathaniel Yancy himself was head of a ring of slavers who regularly sold native laborers to Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea. The women of Liberia's Wedabo tribe still sing...
...meet it. When the people of Las Casas, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, were told that no money had been appropriated for their section of the highway, they offered to work free if they had an engineer to show them how. Mexico City sent down Engineer Fernando Zurita. Under his direction the people tackled the job without modern machinery, using picks and shovels like Chinese coolies on the Burma Road...
...slips of paper listing his little daily expenses to be passed along to his manager-brother, Winter D. Horton. "Taxes, you know," explains Edward, who pays taxes on considerably more than his stage & screen income. He has built, furnished and rented "seven lovely houses" on his 25-acre San Fernando Valley farm, which a Hollywood wag christened "Belleigh Acres." Edward says: "My, but it's been an easy life...
Divorce Revealed. Lady Edward Montagu, fortyish; from the Duke of Manchester's second son, gadabout Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, 41, who at one time or another has been deckhand, hobo, cab driver, hot-dog vendor, U.S. Army private; after nine years (no children); in Manhattan...