Word: rosario
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington's Boiling Field, late that night, Manuel Roxas wearily ended a 45-hour trip, ducked interviewers, planted a kiss on the cheek of his Vassar-student daughter, Maria Rosario, and scooted off to bed. Next day, he began to scurry about the capital with the dynamic energy of a supersalesman. He relaxed, like a salesman, in smart Washington dining spots, with imperious gallantry kissed the hand of a singer while flashbulbs exploded with good will...
Still vocally confident at week's end, Perón set out from Buenos Aires for Rosario, Argentina's second largest city, got workers' cheers, was slightly jolted when his dining car jumped the tracks. He also appealed abroad for friendship. He conveniently forgot that his street fighters still shouted against "Yankee imperialism," that last fortnight he had himself made an unsupported charge that the U.S. Embassy was aiding arms shipments to his opponents. Now Perón called for "mutual comprehension" between Argentina and the U.S., said he hoped for U.S. capital because "it would bring...
...South America's record-breaking 14 cardinals were dotted on the map with the same sense of worldwide polity. Cuba, Chile and Peru got their first cardinals, while Brazil and Argentina were upped to two apiece. Most notable Latin choice: tall, taciturn, efficient Bishop Antonio Caggiano of Rosario, builder of Argentina's Catholic Action movement, who has often shown hatred of Fascism and antiSemitism...
...midnight train from Rosario rolled into Buenos Aires, U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden wondered what kind of reception he would get at the station. In his pocket were reports of the Government-inspired, anti-U.S. campaign which had pictured him as a "Yankee pig," a tough U.S. cowboy trying to run Argentina. In a Buenos Aires theater, a nationalist audience had screamed: "Death to Braden...
...first copy off the press was presented to General MacArthur. Some 5,000 copies were given away to troops fighting in Manila, on Corregidor, and all the way north to Rosario; and plenty of copies were also sent to the news-hungry internees at Santo Tomas University...