Word: patrocinio
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...rash assumption that law and the police are enough to check silent storms, well-founded discontent and rampant social injustice." Next door in Portugal, a bishop raised the same warning cry last week. In a pastoral letter published in Lisbon's Roman Catholic daily, Novidados, Bishop Jose do Patrocinio Dias of Beja called upon both government and private charity to come to the aid of the poverty-stricken rural workers whose numbers were "not decreasing but growing daily...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
...Guatemala City, Pilot Richardson learned more details. Only a few hours of rumbling prefaced the eruption. Three hundred to 400 persons were reported killed. Eight important coffee plantations were destroyed. Red hot lava had buried the village of El Patrocinio deeper than Pompeii...
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