Word: julio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month 9,000 had arrived; last week the S.S. Santa Cruz brought 1,200 more; this week the U.S. Army's S.S. General S. D. Sturgis will dock with 850. Next year's goal is 100,000; within five to ten years, predicts Julio Grooscors, head of Venezuela's Institute of Immigration & Colonization, the country's population will double...
Trujillo understood just how to deal with this sort of business. Yellow-eyed Julio Ortega Frier, his Washington Ambassador, broadcast that "3,000 Communist revolutionaries" were training in eastern Cuba, fixing to invade Trujilloland. Five days later he reported that 1,000 of them had already set sail in two landing barges and a corvette. But nothing happened...
...progressive democracy. He has been in politics since he was 25. But politics has not been his only activity. He has had a radio station, Radio Ariel, over which many an Argentine and Paraguayan exile has broadcast. Every afternoon Luisito goes to the Café Montevideo on Avenida 18 Julio to gossip over coffee. He drives his car at high speed, likes to box. After hours, he takes his ease with his wife and three children at a small farm outside the capital...
...high point came at the Quai d'Orsay when Evita watched stout, perspiring Argentine Ambassador Julio Victorica Roca sign a French-Argentine commercial treaty granting France a loan of 600,000,000 pesos ($150,750,000). It would mean a lot more wheat. It would mean, too, more beef. One French commentator quipped unkindly: "Madame Peron will be made palatable to the French workers and peasants by being dressed as a piece of Argentine frozen beef...
...Died. Julio Tello, 67, Peru's No. 1 archeologist; of an unknown disease that popular legend attributes to germs picked up in old Indian tombs; in Lima, Peru. Fellow experts often disagreed with dour little Tello's historical conclusions, but fellow Indians hailed him for his favorite one: that they are not members of an inferior race...