Word: marque
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, finally wore down her dad's long opposition to her leaving home. She was reported engaged in Madrid to Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu y Bascarán, Marqués de Villaverde, 28, a doctor in the Spanish army...
...Madrid, the grandees conducted a kind of dignified sit-down strike against "foreigners of dubious origin." So far, they had signed the patents of only two claimants. Intoned the committee's secretary, the Marqués de Ortasona: "What the king has given, and has been lost, can only be restored by a king." Added another grandee: "We are in no hurry. Perhaps if we slow down enough, the patents will bear the signature of a king and not of a commoner who happens to be chief of state...
...Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Margaret Strong...
...Lima and Quito were shorter than usual. Each capital suspected that the other was trying to buy U.S. support with concessions. Other American capitals suspected, with more reason, that Axis and pro-Axis provocateurs had planted and watered the first suspicion. The Spanish Ambassador to Peru, Pablo de Churruca, Marqués de Aycinena, who once studied the problem for Arbiter Alfonso XIII, was shrewdly suspected of having put pressure on Peru to hold out for a lion's share of the territory...