Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the direction of the Year Book Staff of the present Junior Class at the Harvard Four Months' Navy Supply School, the Supply Corps Ball will take place Saturday, June 17, in the Grand Ball Room of the Copley-Plaza. Attending the dance will be members of the two Harvard Schools, the Wellesley Supply School, and the Radcliffe WAVES...
...police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from jail last December, ever since had been plotting the Dictator's overthrow. He did not have long to wait...
Bert Edwards and his orchestra have been engaged to play for the Supply Corps Ball, to be held Saturday, June 17 at the Copley-Plaza, the committee announced yesterday. Members of the two Harvard Schools, the Wellesley Supply School, and the Radcliffe WAVE contingent have been invited...
Loafers in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, idly feeding crumbs to the pigeons, suddenly found three circus elephants in their midst. With equal suddenness, in the midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend...
...splendid city of Buenos Aires was thriving, cocky, getting richer by the minute. Busy factories billowed thick, black smoke. The Calle Florida, flashier than ever, glittered with the smart new shops of refugees. Pin-striped upper-crusters gathered at 8 p.m. in the Plaza Bar, sipped the abundant Scotch, ribbed the preposterous military Government and told with detailed animation whom they slept with the night before...