Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambassador Stanton Griffis took him along to Buenos Aires and Madrid as a sort of social secretary. So enthusiastically did Angie cotton to the diplomatic life that last year Harry Truman appointed...
Braaten writes from Madrid, "I couldn't figure out any other way to get an egghead, a figurehead, and a hardheaded fund-raiser into the same cartoon. If this looks as though it were done between trains in a dingy Bilbao hotel room lit by a single naked bulb, it's because it was. Of course, it would have looked the same if it had been done in a north-lighted studio overlooking the Seine, but a guy has to have some excuse...
...overboard. The night the blow fell, Duarte aimlessly took in a girlie-girlie show, idly went on to a nightspot. Two days later, in a more determined frame of mind, he appeared at Buenos Aires airport with a toothsome movie actress and reservations for two on a plane to Madrid...
...Granada's committee supervising education decided that Ave Maria should have a yearly allocation to carry on its work and that the precepts of Father Andres should be written down and distributed to other community schools. Meanwhile another committee, headed by Granada's mayor, set off for Madrid to ask the government to push Father Andres' beatification by the Vatican. But to the gypsies of Sacro Monte, all this was hardly necessary. "We need no Pope's decree," they like to say, "to know that our Don Andres is now a saint in heaven...
...well-to-do, imperturbable Jimmy Dunn, the reassignment means a return to the place where he started his foreign-service career 33 years ago. After studying for a law degree and practicing briefly as an architect, he entered the Foreign Service as third secretary in Madrid. Married to Mary Armour of the meatpacking family, he combined social assurance and a sure sense of protocol with an unspectacular determination to become a competent career man. In 1927 Cal Coolidge borrowed him as White House director of ceremonies, and he stayed on under Herbert Hoover as chief of protocol...