Word: juan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Told the press he will ask Congress to extend beyond next June the State Department's powers to conclude reciprocal trade agreements, thus coming to the aid of beleaguered Secretary Cordell Hull. >Mourned the death of President Juan Arosemena of Panama (see p. 57). ^ Presented to Mrs. Richard Aldrich...
...Died. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, 61, President (the 16th) of Panama, longtime champion of Pan-American solidarity; of a heart attack; in Penonome, Panama...
Also in the show cases is an example of the first book published in the Western Hemisphere, which was printed by Juan Pablos, a Spaniard who set up shop in Mexico in 1539 and published his first work a year later...
This year conservative opposition is headed up by the Independent nominee, General Juan Andreu Almazán, running on a platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once...
...course, the special nature of brass technique requires a special type of writing by composers. Skillful handling, as in the bombastic theme near the end of Strauss's Don Juan and in the rich romantic treatment of Brahm's Fourth Symphony (which will be played this week) exploits the qualities of power and sonority which make the brass so valuable in the modern orchestra...