Word: francia
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Harvardevens and the Brunswick are operated at a deficit, Francia said, and thus, when the demand lessens, these projects will be the first to be liquidated...
...Here, when Paris was liberated, the whole town went mad, and everyone went around shouting 'Long live Liberty, Democracy and the Allies!' About 500,000 people concentrated in Plaza Francia. . . . The Government, of course, tried by force to stop all this, but they were unsuccessful...
...Supremo, Jose Caspar Rodriguez Francia, was Dictator of Paraguay for a quarter-century (1814-40). His policy of strict isolationism prevented Paraguay's incorporation into Argentina or Brazil...
...were roses for José as she stepped off the train in Rome-roses from the Dictator. Excellency Mussolini later kissed Mile Laval's hand, but first he kissed Excellency Laval on both cheeks. Outside the station a mob of Romans, accustomed for years to shout "Abbasso la Francia! Down with France! " when they mentioned that country at all roared "Evviva Mussolini! Evviva la Francia! Evviva Laval!" With 5,000 trim Italian police and militia blocking off the station, the Frenchman's hotel and an intervening strip of Rome, II Duce gave a pointed exhibition...
...Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved to a 14-room apartment on Park Avenue, Manhattan...