Word: raul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...female proletariat. Mrs. Warren was invoked as a witness last week before the U.N.'s Social and Humanitarian Committee, which was debating a Draft Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude." In a rare show of unanimity, their usually separate moral sensibilities jointly outraged, the U.S., Britain and Russia agreed...
...week, for the first time since Dom Pedro's visit, another Brazilian chief of state was due in the U.S. During his ten-day stay, President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect TVA and Vanderbilt University's Institute...
Three weeks ago, Chile's wide-awake President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla announced that his government welcomed Harry Truman's plan. He began holding daily cabinet sessions on the subject, and told Under Secretary of Economy and Commerce Raul Fernandez to draw up a brochure for presentation to the State Department early in March. It will list the industries Chile hopes to establish, specify which parts of the country are best suited to each, and how much of what type of capital each will require...
Just after noon one day last week, Roberto, as his teammates called him, rode his horse up the steep path to 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...
...past midnight, but the big man shouted: "Go tell the ambassador that the chief of the People's Party wants to see him." The ambassador appeared and admitted Peru's most famous political refugee to the asylum of his embassy. After three months in hiding, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 53-year-old boss of the outlawed People's Party (APRA), wanted diplomatic protection and a chance to flee his country in safety...