Word: mandl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, to fill the cabinet vacancy, Perón dredged up a little-known criminal lawyer named Hipólito Jesús Paz, 32. A moderate nationalist, the new Foreign Minister is a junior partner in a Buenos Aires law firm whose clients include the notorious Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker. As for Private Citizen Bramuglia, a poor man, he planned to practice law after a trip...
...drive to break the Roman Catholic Church, the Czech Communist government last week recruited 118 pliable Catholics, including two monsignors and a sprinkling of priests, to form an "anticapitalist" Catholic Action Organization. At the same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
Juicy Item. The faded springtime appetite of the newspaper-reading public was stimulated by a savory item on Fritz Mandl's latest marital difficulties. Mandl's third wife, Herta Schneider, sued for legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by the hair. Scandal-loving Crítica plastered the story all over the paper, complete with cheesecake pictures of Hedy Lamarr, Mandl's second wife, recounted Mandl's efforts to suppress the film Ecstasy...
Divorced. By Hedy Lamarr, 32, conspicuously decorative Viennese-born cinemactress: John Loder, 49, tall, tweedy British cinemactor, her third husband (others: Fritz Mandl, Gene Markey); after four years, two children; in Los Angeles...
...Fritz Mandl, sleek, shifty, Croesus-rich ex-Austrian arms manufacturer who has had his political troubles (he was blacklisted in 1944 by the State Department and is now rumored imprisoned in Argentina) ran into domestic trouble. He was sued for $80,000 in back alimony by his first wife, ex-Viennese Actress Hella Strauss. (Another Mandl exwife: Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr-see MILESTONES...