Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine Hungarian consular and diplomatic officials in Washington, New York and Cleveland resigned in protest against the Mindszenty trial. Catholic pickets, carrying signs denouncing Communist Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss...
...tiny (pop. 150) San Pedro del Alto. Ten yards behind followed his Mexican assistant, Raul Sanchez. About 40 yards farther back rode three soldiers (the only armed men in the party) and a guide. Topping the rise, Roberto rode slowly up to the church on the sunbaked, cactus-hedged plaza. As he was about to dismount, he suddenly cried to Sanchez: "Get out quick, go back...
Saturday noon, Hubert Humphrey, national chairman of the A.D.A., spoke before a luncheon of the Nieman Fellows. In the evening he addressed delegates at the Roosevelt Day dinner in the Copley Plaza...
...Harvard professors have been included in the list of local civic and political leaders sponsoring the Americans for Democratic Action "Roosevelt Day" Dinner tonight at the Copley-Plaza on the eve of the late President's birthday...
...University professors will discuss future American policy in forums tomorrow and Sunday. John K. Fairbank, professor of History, will address the Foreign Policy Association tomorrow afternoon at the Copley Plaza and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak before the Ford Hall Forum Sunday evening...