Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moneda, Chile's White House, lively new President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla gave a big dance and reception. Invitations read "tails and decorations." Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers...
...Died. Gabriel Wells, 85, onetime penniless Hungarian immigrant who won fame & fortune as bibliophile and bibliopole; in Manhattan. Most famous transaction: purchase of an imperfect Gutenberg Bible, which he sold book by book (Genesis brought $5,100) and leaf by leaf ($150-$500 a page...
Congress made it official. Leftist Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, who had won a plurality (but not the necessary majority) in last month's elections, would be Chile's new President. As the results were announced last week in the Chamber, Communist legislators, raising clenched fists, sang Chile's national anthem. Soviet Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, impeccably stony-faced, looked on with other diplomats...
Uruguay's President Gabriel Terra, recovering from an assassin's bullet, urged him not to ride through the streets of Montevideo, F.D.R. burst out laughing. "I can't see where I run any risks," he exclaimed, poking his fellow-president in the ribs. "You are the president they...
...Evening Standard: "Hey, have you heard that Göring committed suicide?" She had known the G.I. since childhood, but she had heard latrine rumors before, so she let it pass. Another guard told Mutual's Robert Gary, who tried to pin it down in time for a Gabriel Heatter news broadcast and got nowhere. "A man could ruin himself in five minutes," said Gary, virtuously, "by broadcasting a silly report like that...