Word: juan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only 85,000 and last week 400,000 retreating Leftists and hostages jammed it almost beyond bearing, with food running crucially short. Daily Spanish civilians escaped on British merchant ships convoyed by British warships. In Leftist Spain the situation was recognized to be so desperate that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and his Foreign Minister Jose Girál Pereira piled into an airplane, flew to Paris and appealed in strongest terms to new French Premier Camille Chautemps for any and every sort of aid, then flew back to Valencia...
...plays are old: Gerhart Hauptmann's Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel's Juarez and Maximilian, David Belasco's Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Two are new: Miracle of the Swallows, a play about San Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner's Gold, a '49er show by Agnes Peterson, a Los Angeles school board official. Founder Brown will play the title role in Montezuma. Young Onslow Stevens, who with Gloria Stuart is the Playhouse...
...five-month-old recommendation of a neutral military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such a frenzy that they refused to obey...
There it was discovered that the assaulter was no ordinary brawler but Manuel Oyon, a onetime Venezuelan judge. The assaulted was General Jorge Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan...
Joseph E. Upson, Geology 1 section man, has returned to Colorado for the second year to map the San Juan district and investigation geologic structures of that area. Likewise in Colorado this summer is L. L. Ray, a graduate student who is working at the Lindonmeyer site. Another graduate student, W. T. Pecora, is working in the Bearpaw Mountains of Montana...