Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seville prepared for Europe's most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece...
General Arturo Rawson became President, ruled Argentina for almost two days. While Porteños, and the rest of the world, looked on in some amazement, the Presidential guard was changed at the double quick, and swifter than the opening of a trap door, General Pedro Ramirez succeeded President Arturo Rawson...
...relentlessly in the Times kept Los Angeles, until recent years, a strike-ridden city. It also kept the city open-shop, helped Chandler at tract the aircraft and other industries. He promoted vast Los Angeles real-estate developments, wide boulevards, Hollywood, the $60,000,000 artificial harbor at San Pedro, the Coliseum and Hollywood Bowl. Spreading his power and empire through out the Southwest, he became one of the nation's biggest landowners, one of the West's richest and most influential men. The Times (which has been actively managed since 1941 by his suave, able son Norman...
...Argentines know that she is co-owner, with her ailing, 73-year-old brother, Don Ezequiel Pedro...
...least misfortune which can happen to them." Because Librarian MacLeish conceived American Story as the account of the settlement of America, North and South, his chronicle joins the two continents. Last week, for instance, he gave Governor William Bradford's record of the founding of Plymouth and Pedro de Valdivia's record of the establishment of Santiago, Chile, by the Spaniards. Says MacLeish: "I think one reason the Americas find it so difficult to get along, one with the other, is that we don't understand our common background. From Alaska to the tip of South America...