Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1929, when Dictator de Rivera seized U.S., British, French and Dutch oil properties and merged them into a graft-ridden state monopoly, U.S. oilmen have been kept out of Spain. Recently, Spanish industry, which has been pinched by an oil shortage, has prodded Dictator Franco into dickering with U.S. oil experts to come back into Spain and step up oil production...
When the British-owned railways were bought, IAPI paid for them. When Franco touched Argentina for $125 million, it was IAPI that gave him the money. Every private enterprise in Argentina, the maker of alpargatas (sandals) as well as the foreign meat packer, lives under the long shadow of IAPI...
Scouts had picked Chicago's big Civic Opera House as "the place to open in America." While they waited for the company to arrive from Montreal, Chicago's socialites and Franco-American clubs prepared a Bourbonic welcome. There would be a huge party backstage in the famous Gold Key room on opening night. And the French Embassy was sending a diplomat to make it official...
...Smith, 50, rabble-rousing, race-baiting ex-preacher from Louisiana; for Vice President, Harry Romer, 50, a funeral director of St. Henry, Ohio. Smith and Romer were running mates in 1944 on the America First ticket. They advocate withdrawal of the U.S. from U.N., establishment of friendly relations with Franco Spain, deportation of all Negroes and Zionist Jews...
...Struck dumb in 1943 by an emotional disorder, Emilio Franco, a 35-year-old coal miner, took a ride on a Coney Island roller coaster, began screaming on the second dip. Back on solid ground, his first coherent words in five years were: "I feel sick...