Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post exchange, where the Army has a gift shop for combat men only, bracelets, pins, scarves, handbags disappeared like doughnuts at a Red Cross club. "Think of it," said Lieut. Rafael V. Munguia, in charge of the wrapping center: "Easter Sunday morning at home . . . with a touch of Paris in every town...
...Denver. The Army's shrewd tactics in Chicago were followed with similar unspectacular neatness in Ward stores in six other cities-Detroit, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), Jamaica (N.Y.), San Rafael (Calif.). In Detroit, which WLB Chairman William H. Davis had described as "explosive," union men gleefully broke a 19-day-old picket line when the Army took over. In the previous three weeks, gangs of vandals had three times invaded Ward stores in Detroit, overturning counters, trampling merchandise, smashing fixtures (see cut). Now, pickets marched away, waving U.S. flags. In Denver, Clerk Vera Jean Perkins, seeing the Army...
...millions of illiterate Indians had been ruled by caciques or headmen. Modern caciques adopted the title of "general," set up military despotisms. Central America, which separated from Spain in 1821, fell into five republics shortly after armed Indians revolted, led by a former pig-driver called the Angel Rafael. Ever since, the Ladinos had kept the little countries in turmoil with a meaningless, serial struggle between political ins & outs, usually labeled "Liberals" and "Conservatives...
...judges for the debate will include Dean Buck, Rafael Domos, associate professor of Philosophy, and David M. Little '13, Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House...
...Brazil stalked into the Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...