Word: newe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...New York City
Spokesman for the group was New York's Democratic Congressman Joseph L. Pfeifer, a Brooklyn surgeon. When an impatient Spanish reporter in Madrid asked when the U.S. was going to stop talking and start doing something about Spain, Pfeifer crisply ticked off some hard facts of U.S. political life: the remarks of a few itinerant Congressmen did not mean that the U.S. as a whole was possessed of any overwhelming desire to take Dictator Franco back into the family. A committee staff member, C. B. Marshall, used stronger words: "We give loans only to governments who represent their people...
Such footnotes to the American Revolution made interesting reading but Arriba was not quite telling all. Hoping to weaken both British imperialism and the threat of a people's government in the New World, Spain had sent the colonies secret shipments of clothing, salt and munitions through the private mercantile house of Gardoqui & Sons-but only in quantities calculated to protract the struggle without making a real decision possible. When Washington's army began winning important victories, Spanish interest in the Revolution abruptly vanished...
...decisive battles of the Revolution. Burgoyne had come south from Canada in the summer of 1777 in an attempt to isolate New England by occupying the Hudson Valley; his 5,000 British and German troops were badly mauled by Americans led by Benedict Arnold on Oct. 7; ten days later, surrounded by 20,000 revolutionary soldiers under General Horatio Gates, they laid down their arms...
...thing was obviously missing from Sehwarz, and that was Santa Claus. The search led on to Filene's, where one was found seated on a throne, doling out green lollypops to frightened little children, some of whom had to be dragged up to him bodily. Santa had a new assistant this year, a young lady who called herself Miss Holly and who was dressed like a like a Filene doll called Holly Dolly, only she was big and blonde and the dolls small and brunette. I asked Miss Holly who Santa Claus really was and she said that...