Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placate the autonomy-minded Croats. Against the virtual certainty of losing Croatia and its neighbors if the German demands were resisted, Prince Paul advised their acceptance. His Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch, and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch agreed. So, naturally, did the Croatian Vice Premier, Vladimir Matchek, and Father Fran Kulovetch, the Slovene leader. The Minister of War, General Petar Pesitch, was doubtful...
...more hopefuls who reported for the first session of signal and blocking drills were Charley Spreyer star of last year's Pennsylvania game and Henry Vander Eb, expert place kicker. Both men drew low numbers in the draft and will definitely be called into service in July. Although Captain Fran Lee runs a chance of being called in July, he nevertheless is working out with the squad for the five weeks practice session which ends...
Although Yale took the lion's share of the places in the recent Intercollegiate Invitation meet at Annapolis, the Crimson Natators won a mythical second, with one first, three seconds, a third, and a fourth. Captain Fran Powers accounted for the first with his victory the 220, while Hill Dracker and Bob White accounted for the seconds in the backstroke and 300 yard medley, respectively. Powers' time was 2:13:8. Bus Curwen took a fourth in the 440 in 5:05, and the 440 relay team placed third behind Yale and Princeton. Shaw McCutcheon qualified for the dive finals...
...moving ever closer toward the "collaboration" that Adolf Hitler wants. The Marshal appointed a new Ministry in which the name of no enemy of collaboration appeared, a new five-man Cabinet top-heavy with portfolios for the man who has taken over the task of arranging collaboration, Admiral Jean François Darlan. The Admiral is now Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Navy, Minister of the Interior, and the Marshal's designated successor...
...Without a navy," Admiral Jean Fran-gois Darlan once said, quoting Richelieu, "one can neither carry on a war nor profit by a peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...