Word: leonor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
Though fiery-tempered old Leonor drove many a military wolf away from her girls, she never had to bother about a taciturn sergeant named Antonio del Rioarmenta. He was in love with young Adelita, but he was too shy to tell anyone about it. Instead he wrote a song for her, working out the tune on his harmonica. In the hospital train at Aguascalientes one day, he sang...
Adhemar dropped out of the public spotlight until the revolution of 1945, when he scrambled back into politics. Many Paulistas think that his wife, Leonor, mother of his two strapping sons and his two daughters, spurred him on. "He may be the brains, but she is the soul of that team," they...
Help from Leonor. At his famed Thursday night radio broadcasts from the yellow-stuccoed governor's palace, she sits with him. Often he seems to be speaking to her rather than to the cross section of São Paulo that crowds around the table or to the thousands of Paulistas who hear his voice through loudspeakers in the dusty squares of distant villages. The broadcasts have become a weekly event for listeners-in southern Brazil...
...Pennsylvania wanted the Wabash so badly it paid $63,041,549 for 49% of its stock in 1927-28, much of it to the late, great, foxy Leonor Fresnel Loree. The next year ICC came out with its "final'' consolidation plan. Instead of the four systems expected by the Eastern railroads (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio-Erie-Nickel Plate), ICC proposed five-the fifth being a looping road-to-nowhere based on the Wabash and Seaboard. And instead of approving the Pennsy's expensive purchase, ICC began anti-trust proceedings...