Word: jose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover's appearance in San Jose superior court challenges the attention of the whole nation, and particularly those who look after other people's money. If the guardians of Stanford's funds are worried by the bogey of inflation, Harvard's trustees should sit up and take notice. For all save the government's hirelings will now admit that serious inflation looms larger than at any time since the administration took the helm...
Married. Maria Iturbi, 18, daughter of Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor; and Stephen Hero, 20, concert violinist, Iturbi's protege; in Bedford Hills...
...mortal fear of Army Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, over a year ago, a black-browed, cigar-sucking little man named Miguel Mariano Gomez began plugging steadily at building himself into Cuba's dark horse. He was the son of Cuba's second President, Jose Miguel Gomez. He had been an insurgent "Liberal" Mayor of Havana opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump, dazzling wife. He proceeded quietly to wangle alliances with all the Right Center "sectors," to acquire some semi-radical friends and to find a man with a much better radio voice...
...final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates who once shrilled for Cuba's attention, only Gomez and Menocal last week actually ran for President. As the ballots were counted by the lazy and inefficient clerks, it appeared...
First impression was to wonder why anyone so flagrantly sexy as her Carmen should trouble to work for a living in a cigaret factory. She sang the Habanera belligerently, as if defying the world. She turned on bewildered Don Jose like a tigress, sidled up to the captain of the guards like an oldtime cinema vamp. The stage scarcely seemed to hold her. Ponselle's voice is naturally sumptuous, but she was too busy ranting to do justice by Bizet's music...