Word: heredia
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...N.A.A.C.P.'s Ivy correctly states that other Negroes have held Cabinet posts in France. TIME should have said that Minister Houphouet-Boigny is the first West African Negro to achieve Cabinet rank. Two French Negroes held major Cabinet offices before him: Cuban-born Severiano de Heredia, who became a French citizen, Mayor of Paris and Minister of Public Works, 1887; Martinique-born Henri Lémery, who was Minister of Justice...
...weeks later, Faustino returned to the Trigo flat with a briefcase full of documents. "Right here," he said, "I have proof that you are none other than the illegitimate daughter of the late Dona Maria del Rosario Heredia de Fonte Uberta, Marquesa de Escalona del Valle, Grandee of Spain and lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Here," he added, "is a copy of your mother's last will leaving you all her titles, privileges and estates...
...Tail. Out came the last bull. They had seen this one before. And the crowd went mad in a different way. That morning, during the encierro (a ceremony of running ahead of the bulls through the streets, which survives only in Pamplona) this bull had gored one Casimiro Heredia in the chest. When Heredia lost his head and tried to get up, the bull turned and butchered...
...First Negro French Cabinet member was one de Heredia (no kin to Poet Jose-Maria de Heredia) who was appointed Minister of Public Works...
Cuba. Newspapers suddenly charged last week that a Major Arsenic Ortiz, former military supervisor of Oriente Province, and Lieut. Felipe Valle and Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...