Word: rams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will attack and two will ram,' he says to the captain. 'Will we attack, sir?' the Captain says, probably thinkin' that Tovey, bein' the admiral, might pick the easier of the jobs. 'No, you bloody fool, we'll ram!' old Splash says. Just then the Warspite* behind us signaled and asked him what the bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that...
...Thermann, containing evidence that he received money from ostensible German "welfare" agencies, that he used the money for ends "foreign to his diplomatic character." As the four most influential newspapers in Buenos Aires (La Nación, La Prensa, El Mundo, Critica) issued a simultaneous demand that Acting President RamÓn S. Castillo scrap his policy of neutrality, it looked as if Ambassador von Thermann would soon pack his trunks...
...Buenos Aires, with Acting President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting...
Words & Weasels. The British and U.S. decision to help Russia and the Pope's refusal to join Adolf Coeur de Lion's crusade kept the Nazi campaign from gaining headway among the more statesmanlike of Latin America's leaders. Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo joined Brazil's Getulio Vargas and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in broadcasting good-neighborly greetings to the U.S. on the Fourth of July...
Beneficiary of this shake-up was the Primo de Rivera clan, the royal family of the Falange. Falangist Arrese married a cousin of Founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. But the big gainer was Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suòer, who as head of the Falange's Junta Politico, outranks Secretary General Arrese. Just how much Serrano and the Falange had gained was made clear in another decree removing the division of press and propaganda from the Ministry of Government and placing it in the hands of the Falange...