Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bataan peninsula, rich young Andres Soriano, onetime unofficial pro-Fascist representative of General Francisco Franco in Manila, organized Filipino volunteers into a "Rizal Legion" (named for the national patriot, Jose Rizal) for jungle counter-sniping at the Japanese. > "Increasingly effective" throughout other parts of the Philippines was the F.F.F. (Fight for Freedom), a secret band whose terrorizing of Japanese, as well as of native traitors and informers, recalled the dreaded KKK (Kataas-tassan Kaga-lang-galang Katipunan ng Bayan) which opposed Spanish rule...
...music students, 50,000 school bands and orchestras, though he tempers this estimate with such revealing anecdotes as Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood-scented remark to Jascha Heifetz: "Money isn't everything, Mr. Heifetz. I can make you famous!" More typical of today, Author Ewen thinks, is Jose Iturbi's story of how he found the radio of a roadside lunch-wagon tuned to a Sunday evening symphony. The clatter melted into silence as customers, dishwashers, waitresses succumbed to the music's spell. But the counterman wasn't satisfied. "He scowled at four hamburgers sizzling...
...Sixteen of the 20 Latin American Republics celebrated the birthday. Costa Rica named a street in San Jose Avenida Roosevelt...
Fortnight ago the symphony invited swart-tempered Spaniard Jose Iturbi to conduct next spring, offered him passage in an R.A.F. bomber and an acoustically perfect air-raid shelter. Last week Iturbi was still thinking it over...
...Henry Kaiser, he helped to plan the West Coast concern. An Austrian citizen, he was high on the FBI roundup list as an enemy national employed in confidential U.S. defense work. At week's end he was still in the protective custody of the county sheriff in San Jose, but was allowed to attend Permanente production conferences...