Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Secretary of the Chilean Embassy in Washington was giving a cocktail party. The talk was of Virginia hams and the weather. Suddenly a young reporter spilled his Scotch & water into a girl's lap. Wailed the girl: "What a mess!'' Said Host Fernando Ortuzar, who had been looking elsewhere: "Which mess, madam, London or Argentina...
Last week he lined up a gallery of Pan-European supporters. Among them: Austrian Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel (The Song of Bernadette, The Twilight of a World, Jacobowski and the Colonel); Fernando de los Rios, onetime Ambassador of Republican Spain in Washington; French Playwright Henry Bernstein; Nellos Camellopoulos, onetime member of the Greek Parliament; Businessman Edouard Müller (Nestlé Chocolate), formerly of Switzerland. Said they: only a continental confederation can "coordinate the common political, economic and military interests of Europe and the personal rights of all Europeans...
With sherifian majesty, Sidi Mohamed Ben Moulay Youssef Ben Moulay El-Hassan-Scion of the Prophet, Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of Morocco-singed the mustache of the Dictator of Spain. From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...
...hustled west to Wilshire Boulevard's breezy shopping district to unveil a retail salon (Hollywood for shop). Next he bought 28,000 square feet of greenhouse and opened another retail store in San Gabriel, Calif., added a four-and-a-half-acre nursery plot in the famed San Fernando Valley. Thus bulwarked from field to chromium counter, Smith set out to make his flowers pay as handsomely as they grew...
...against only token opposition. On the east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been hoping to move major forces south from Vigan for a flank attack, his hopes were dampened by the sinking of 45 luggers and a transport trying to land supplies off San Fernando. Sealing of the Baguio road by U.S. forces further protected this flank...