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Recently, the following colloquy took place between the secretary in our San Antonio, Texas bureau and an anonymous telephoner. Said our girl, answering the phone : Garfield ni-yon, three-seven...
...knew all you should know, you wouldn't have task"). And standing on the other side was Arthur Griffith, little and squat, spectacles on his nose, a dark green velour hat stuck on his head, "the great man with the brain of ice," probably dreaming of Cathleen ni Houlihan and never giving a thought to the far-off days when he would be Eire's President...
...Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta, were a new political party, the Movimento Unionista Italiano (Italian Unionist Movement). Its emblem was the Stars & Stripes, the Italian flag and a world map. The word spread through the fishing villages, vineyards and olive groves of southern Italy and Sicily, where almost every ragged family has a relative in the U.S. In last month's municipal elections, the Unionists won four local governments, elected a total of 227 aldermen. Last week jubilant Paladino announced that his followers now numbered 875,000 and that his party would run a full slate...
...stroll, was symbolic. U.S. troops stormed the castle in 1847, and to Mexicans. Chapultepec means much the same thing that Bunker Hill means to the U.S. Among its defenders were teen-age cadets of the Mexican Military College, who are revered to this day in Mexico as the "Niños Héroes" (Boy Heroes) of Chapultepec...
...Ni Shaga Nazad. As evidence of the situation's seriousness, however, Red Star? the Army's newspaper, lengthened its slogan from "Not one step backward" (Ni shaga nazad) to "Not one step backward without order of commanders." In a moment "pregnant with great danger for our country," Red Star appealed to southern troops to maintain iron discipline from the top commanders to the lowest ranks...