Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned the restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics. By the decisive vote of 286 to 237 the Oxford Union balloted that vernacular George II had lost the debate. Were George II Roman Catholic, in stead of Greek Orthodox, his remarks would have deeply offended...
...succeed Jefferson Caffery, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Salvador, President Coolidge appointed Warren D. Robbins, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Rome. To succeed Charles S. Wilson, transferred (te Rumania), as U. S. Minister to Bulgaria, President Coolidge appointed Hans...
Perhaps the sharpest barb yet hurled at the Kellogg Peace Pact came last week from onetime Director Salvador de Madariaga of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations. Wrote he to the London Times: "It is evident that a state which offers to renounce all but defensive wars (and that is what the American proposal means, despite its, in appearance, unqualified condemnation of war) renounces nothing at all so long as it retains the right to define when it is fighting a defensive...
Three meanings of the adjective sucio are dirty, filthy, obscene. Long ago, the natives of Salvador stigmatized one of their rivers by naming it the Rio Sucio. Last week the lower reaches of this stream near Quezaltepeque were choked with dead, floating, stinking fish. There had been, guessed geologists, a minor earthquake near the remote headwaters of El Rio Sucio...
...Final and titanic outpopping occurred on the eve of adjournment, last week, when Foreign Minister of Salvador Dr. Don Jose Gustavo Guerrero broke an agreement arrived at in committee not to present to the plenary session a resolution condemning intervention-such as that of the U. S. in Nicaragua...