Word: julio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JULIO A. RICART V. Consul General Dominican Consulate Ottawa...
...from outlying islands, the vote was about 5-to-1 in favor of the amendment. Even in Manila, center of Philippine economic nationalism, the amendment carried nearly 3-to-1. The only excitement occurred when Philippine President Manuel Roxas got a close shave from a Manila barber, one Julio Guillén y Cuerpo. Barber Guillén pulled a hand grenade from a bag of peanuts, missed Roxas but killed a bystander. Roxas had just finished a speech favoring U.S. parity in corporate control...
...Puritan Julio Vielman turned in one of the best individual times of the evening, touching the tiles in 32.8 in the 50-yard breast stroke event...
Last week, Venezuelans got the sequel to the best robber mystery they had known in many a day. In Barranquilla in neighboring Colombia, police began to watch one Julio Casa Rivas. Reason: he was buying flashy cars and diamonds, and otherwise tossing around Venezuelan bolivars. Rivas was arrested, told all: with a cashier accomplice he had switched moneybags just before the San Tome-bound plane took off from Caracus...
...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...