Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuck. In San Pedro, Calif., a dog snapped at Private Michael Zanick's gun and holster, hung on until the gun went off, blasting Zanick's toe. In Manhattan, Mrs. Marie Zollinger leaned over to tuck in the bedding, was shot in the chest by the rifle her husband kept under the mattress...
...Latin Americans, keeping close to Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller, hoped to swing some small changes in Dumbarton Oaks. Big guns were Mexico's suave Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, Chile's Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez, and Brazil's Pedro Leāo Velloso. who brought along his imposing wife...
...Pedro Leào Velloso, Brazil's Foreign Minister and head of its delegation, baldly declared that a prime purpose of the conference was to line up "a solid bloc of votes" for the forthcoming world security conference in San Francisco. Alarmed shushes greeted this un-bagging of an unseemly cat, which was all the more noticeable since Minister Velloso had flown up from Rio with U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius...
...note to Germany was to prepare Argentine public opinion for war, could it sway the fractious Army, too? No one doubted that canny Vice President Perón remembered that Argentina's diplomatic break with the Axis a year ago had caused super-nationalists to overthrow Pedro Ramirez' Government. At week's end the situation in Buenos Aires was still "fluid...
...year Ecuador's freely elected Constituent Assembly chose a popular New Dealing President, tall, professorial José Maria Velasco Ibarra. But when the Assembly turned to its second task, framing a new constitution, it produced a national crisis. A strong left bloc in the Assembly led by Communist Pedro Saad proposed to change Ecuador's highly feudal economy into a socialist state...