Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor, with the Rochester Philharmonic; Victor; nine sides). In one of the great concertos, Iturbi again performs his pet virtuoso stunt; mechanically better than the earlier Victor recording by Beethoven Specialist Artur Schnabel...
Same day three anti-German agitators were put to death: one Szmul Tysselman, a Jewish emigre; one Henri Gautherot, a zealous French nationalist; one Jose Roig, a recruiter for De Gaulle...
...Jaretz could not even keep his 100-meter title from the flying Hawaiians. Takashi Hirose took that. And Jose Balmores, another Islander, took the breaststroke and medley championships. When the final points were tallied, Coach Sakamoto's boys had won the U.S. team title for the third year in a row-with 71 points to 21 for the second-place Chicago Towers Club...
...observers at least, the propaganda that Germany had cooked up for Spanish consumption seemed even less potent than the pressure on Vichy. Headlined in the Falangist paper Arriba was a story that exiled Loyalist General Jose Miaja had been plotting with...
Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...