Word: pardoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights were burning late in El Pardo, the somber palace on the outskirts of Madrid. As he waited in the cold, cavernous halls hung with tapestries of medieval Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco might well have wondered if the lights of his destiny were also burning late. It was going on midnight when a motorcycle courier raced into the high-walled palace grounds, roared past the Moorish sentinels, and delivered the text of the Tripartite declaration. "It is hoped," London, Washington and Paris had broadcast, "that leading patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards may soon find means to bring about a peaceful...
Carmencita Franco, only daughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, officially discarded childhood on her 18th birthday, unveiled her Spanish-style beauty (see cut) at a debutante ball in Madrid's El Pardo palace...
...Cunha was an army engineer and newspaper correspondent who went through the fighting and wrote his masterpiece as an "involuntary attack" on the Brazilian army. He wrote it at night, building bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge over the Rio Pardo, is a venerated Brazilian relic. A plea for Brazilian unity, it is essentially an encyclopedia, almost as difficult reading as one, with its pages of geology as toilsome as the mountain they describe, its descriptions of droughts as parching as the plains. It is also as informative as an encyclopedia...
Getulio went to a private school, enlisted in the Army when he was 17, went from there to Rio Pardo Military School, quit in 1903, when he was 21, to study law at Porto Alegre. In 1908 he hung out his shingle in Sao Borja, and for the next few years he practiced law between terms in the State, then the Federal, Legislature. In 1926 he became Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of President Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza, as a reward for helping to elect Luiz. One year later he was President (Governor) of the State...