Word: fideles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires' semi-official daily El Laborista: "[They are] the advance guard of the Plan Quinquenal which will make Tierra del Fuego a magnificent exponent of social and economic progress...
Three days later the Generalissimo took a second step. From his 13-man Cabinet he fired nine Ministers, most of them Falangists (e.g., Falange Secretary-General José Luis Arrese). Of the new Ministers, some are monarchists (e.g.. Army Minister General José Fidel Davila...
Said he, at long last: "Got married." High Jinks. In Highwood, Ill., Mayor Charles Portilia returned from the Mayo Clinic, found that Acting Mayor Fidel Ghini had fired the police chief, appointed another, allowed gambling at a recreation club and twice fined the club $200 for the privilege. Explained ousted Alderman Ghini: "The money was for a new fire engine." The Strenuous Life. In Detroit...
...Fidel Velázquez, a sincere and able democrat, replaced exotic, eloquent, brilliant Vincente Lombardo Toledano (a school mate of the President's who still calls him by his first name) as secretary of Mexico's most powerful trade-union alliance (the C.T.M.). Under Velázquez the C.T.M. has been purged of Lombardo's Stalinist influence...
Prodded by square-jawed Fidel Velázquez, Secretary General of the Mexican Workers Confederation, the Chamber of Deputies last month demanded that President Manuel Avila Camacho dissolve the Sinarquista Union, whose blind discipline was all too reminiscent of the Nazis. Under one Salvador Abascal its membership had grown to at least 200,000 trained men before Abascal lost his job for talking too much. How long, the Chamber of Deputies asked, could Mexican democracy tolerate a wellarmed, anti-democratic party which...