Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco helping to write the U.N. charter for world peace...
Leathery Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, now living in retirement in San Francisco, was getting ready for a new assignment: running the U.N. plebiscite to find out whether Kashmir should join India or Pakistan...
...drifted home again to exhibit what he had done. He ran right into the revolution against Dictator Diaz. The same week Diego's exhibit opened, Francisco Madero proclaimed Diaz a usurper and, with the help of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, began the seven-month job of forcing the aging dictator out of Mexico. After Diego's show closed, he lit out for the open country, carrying messages to the revolutionaries...
...audience in San Francisco's huge, hangarlike Civic Auditorium was in fine fettle. Even Master of Ceremonies John Charles Thomas couldn't resist getting into the act. "I'm glad to see such a crowd," he roared. "Word must have got around that I won't sing tonight...
...fact, word had got around that the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was giving a tombola (lottery) party to honor beloved old (74 next week) Conductor Pierre Monteux-and incidentally to raise a little extra money for the orchestra's contingency fund. Seven thousand San Francisco music lovers filed in and expectantly awaited the guest of honor...