Word: finale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been thought that in case of a restoration Alfonso's 26-year-old son, Prince Juan, rather than Alfonso, would ascend the throne. The Duke of Maura, eldest son of the onetime Monarchist Premier of Spain, was a trusted adviser of Alfonso, helped frame the final message that Alfonso gave to Spain at the time he was forced from the throne...
...year-old Don McNeill of Oklahoma City, a dynamic player with faultless court manners who, although ranked 13th, has twice defeated Baron Gottfried von Cramm (generally considered the world's best amateur) and last month trounced Bobby Riggs in straight sets in the final of the French championship (hard-court) at Paris...
...avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis giants he has harassed into submission are Jack Crawford, Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich, the three formidable Australians who (unless they lose the Interzone final) will face the U. S. team in the Davis Cup challenge round at Philadelphia on September...
...tall, personable Oxonian, Claude Cockburn (pronounced koburn), who quit as U. S. correspondent for the London Times because he could not stomach its extreme Rightist policy. Editor Cockburn holds down a regular job with the Daily Worker (under the name of Frank Pitcairn), grinds out all the final copy for The Week in one all-night session, fortified by draughts of red wine. He has 40 regular correspondents, makes frequent , trips to European storm centres, has printed some accurate inside stories of the doings of the Cliveden Set. Many times sued for libel, Editor Cockburn has yet to be brought...
...David Eli Lilienthal, boss of Tennessee Valley Authority, came out of the White House with his lips twisted in a grin of satisfaction. He had just told President Roosevelt that there weren't going to be any more big private utilities in the Tennessee Valley: he had completed final arrangements for the purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co. Big Commonwealth Corp. was to get $78,600,000 for its operating subsidiary...