Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest political battle Admiral Reeves ever got into was the struggle between Los Angeles and San Francisco for the West Coast lighter-than-air base. He is a native of San Rafael, near San Francisco, and his wife owned property adjacent to the projected site at Sunnyvale. Nevertheless. Admiral Reeves urged that the base go farther south. When Sunnyvale was selected by political powers in Washington Admiral Reeves was the most displeased man on the West Coast...
...Rafael, Calif., locked in a telephone booth while robbers looted his poolroom, Ed Baier could not lift an arm to lift the receiver to call police. Packed in the booth with him were eight pool patrons...
HEROIC LIVES - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($3). Richard Coeur de Lion, Francis of Assisi, Jeanne d'Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh...
Puerto Rico, reputedly at the instigation of Dr. Barcelo's Liberals, protested Governor Gore's appointment of Rafael Alonzo Torres, Socialist, to the University Board of Trustees. Student delegations twice called on the Governor, were twice refused admittance. Incensed, they presented the Governor with a Manual of Manners, then went on strike, demanding the removal of Socialist Torres...
Jumpy after the explosion, a sentry posted near the Presidential Palace fired several shots at a motor car which whizzed past in the night, not knowing that it contained Senor Rafael Huezo, acting manager of the National Bank of Nicaragua. Lifted from his car. Senor Huezo was carried into the palace where President Sacasa, for years a practicing physician, personally dressed a bullet wound on the banker's head, murmured, "not serious, dear friend, not serious...