Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first teachers' union. Back in Chile in 1936, after he had been wounded fighting the Franco forces at Madrid, he organized the Chilean Workers Federation (C.T.Ch.), which he soon made one of the most powerful in Latin America. At a labor conference in Mexico he became a friend of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and returned to Chile with such a Mexican accent and so many scrapes, that Chileans still call him El Mexicano...
...C.T.Ch. to found a federation of their own. Ibáñez fought back, breaking with Lombardo and C.T.A.L., but he would probably have been licked if Chilean President Gabriel González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick in the bag. We are ready for them...
...with a forged Foreign Office stamp, then sold to the highest bidders in Paris, Hamburg or Munich. When demand swamped supply, George and his associates hit on another scheme. Over many a pint in Glasgow pubs, they asked local folk to hand over their identity cards "to help a friend who wants to get to Eire." For a fiver, hundreds of Glaswegians did so. The card details, plus photographs of D.P. clients, were then used in filling out passport applications. When the passports were issued, George took them to Germany...
Actress Annabella, wife of Tyrone Power (next-to-next-to-latest friend of Lana), got around to suing for divorce after almost nine years of marriage, 15 months of admitted separation. The day she filed suit, Husband Ty welcomed Actress Linda Christian home from Mexico...
...Later, Mark swore off swearing, drinking and chewing but remained a heavy smoker. The December Atlantic printed for the first time the letter Mark wrote to Olivia ("Livy") Langdon three weeks before their marriage in 1870: "I ceased from profanity because Mrs. Fairbanks [a friend] desired it. I stopped drinking strong liquors because you desired it. I stopped drinking all other liquors because it seemed plain that you desired it. I did what I could to learn to leave my hands out of my pantaloon pockets and quit lolling at full length in easy chairs, because you desired it. There...