Word: ior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew a good chance when she saw one. The letter on her desk, addressed to Agustin Americo Merlo of Argentina's Washington embassy staff, was a routine solicitation from the capital's Children's Society, Inc. for a contribution for needy Washington children. Smart Señior Merlo had got the society's O.K. to send the request to Buenos Aires for Evita to peruse...
That night, Señior Mike was Harry Truman's guest at a gold-plate state dinner in the White House. He slept there, too. Next morning, the President of the U.S. saw him off on a busy round of sightseeing and wreath-laying. "I think he's having a good time," said Harry Truman. "He's a grand...
After a visit to Flushing Meadow and the United Nations General Assembly, Señior Mike went back to his Manhattan hotel for what was supposed to be a restful weekend. Instead, he took his son, Miguel Jr., 14, for a half-hour subway ride, toured Rockefeller Center, lunched with Mayor Bill O'Dwyer at Gracie Mansion. This week he hit the road again, going first to West Point, then to Tennessee and Alabama to look over TVA, then to Kansas City (to visit an experimental farm, get another degree). Then home...
...nica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down at one of the three desks...
...diplomatic pouch and sent it by airplane to Mexico City. There the Ministry of Foreign Affairs read it, made a careful copy for study, forwarded the original to the State of Oaxaca, where President Lázaro Cárdenas was on a tour of inspection. Soulful Señior Cárdenas read it, said nothing but that he would "answer at an opportune time...