Word: marts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paracutin split wide open and disgorged a little volcano. A lively row had sprung up between two powerful newspapers, El Universal and Novedades, over whether El Fakir's crucifixion was sacrilege. Universal, which sponsored El Fakir's show, finally overcame objections by getting from Archbishop Luis Martínez a statement: "I have nothing to say about this spectacle . . . because it is nothing that has to do with religion." Religious or not, many awed Mexicans gave El Fakir medals of the Virgin of Guadalupe, asked him to pray for them...
...Mexico ambitious Diego Martínez-Barrio, last president of Spain's Republican Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the Republican Cortes will decide when to re-establish the Republican Government in Spain. But absent from the meeting were the followers of Juan Negrín, Socialist last Premier of Republican Spain, now in England, as well as powerful other Socialist and Communist groups...
...Chicago's Boat Mart, a slick runabout changed hands for $1,500 last week. The seller: an auto-parts manufacturer, his business shot by priorities, his savings shot by income taxes, his nerves shot by the war. The buyer: a steelworker with plenty of overtime in his pay envelope and a thriving bank account...
...attacking first, the British had raided Rhodes. At week's end they followed up with bomber attacks on Crete and the German submarine base at Eleusis near Athens. At the same time the British launched land and air attacks along the western route to Egypt. They shelled the Martüla airdrome in Libya while over the bomb-pocked British island base of Malta, R.A.F. fighters and anti-aircraft guns downed twelve German bombers and two Messerschmitt fighters in 24 hours. A report from London that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, who directed the devastation of Warsaw and Coventry...
Fencing in the foil for the '45 team will be Edwards, Gaeta, and John Thompson; John Duke, Carl Johnson, Bob Miller, and Mart Singer in the epee, and Art DuBois, Kibbey Horne, and Carl Kuhlman in the sabre...