Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Rio's Mayrink Veiga radio station strode a general and a lieutenant carrying a submachine gun. Their announcement: "Vargas has abdicated." As an old presidential decree provided, Supreme Court Justice Jose Linhares had assumed the Presidency...
...Michigan) and 220-lb. Guard Bob Suffridge (Tennessee). Redheaded Steve Van Buren (Louisiana State), who breaks ten seconds for 100 yards, stops on a dime, runs either around or over a tackler with his 207 lbs., is perhaps the best halfback in the game. Quarterback Roy Zimmerman (San Jose State) makes the club click...
Hollywood's Banker. Ever since he started the Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (then the Bank of Italy) 41 years ago, A.P. has had his hard eyes on this goal. The son of a San Jose (Calif.) farmer, he had made enough money in the commission business and real estate to retire at the age of 31. He soon went back to work, via a bank directorship he inherited from his dead father-in-law. When his ideas for liberalizing the bank's methods shocked his conservative fellow directors, Giannini started his own bank...
...movies' master pianist, Jose Iturbi, contributes several fine plane solos and some good comedy, while Kathryn Grayson proves an attractive heroine. When the music stops, the film is devoted to skillful comedy that is both waggish and whimsical. It's the type of comedy that even Fred Allen fans would...
...under pressure from the U.S. press. It included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...