Word: santiagos
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...mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have her boiler cleaned, her bottom scraped. And she arrived off the Cuban coast just in time to wade into the Battle of Santiago...
Strong-Man Rios, since his inauguration last April, has itched to use strong-arm methods in healing splits that World War II has brought to Chile. Last week in Santiago, 20,000 Chileans, clamoring for Pan-American solidarity, demanded an immediate break with the Axis. Only the President had power to grant their demand. Had Rios been there, he might have reminded them of Chile's 2,660-mile unprotected coastline; he might even have said that his Government has already gone as far as it intends to go in placating Pan-Americans: it has warned the Axis that...
...Most Cheerful . . ." The 42 lucky, shipwrecked seamen left in the hotel got almost too much attention. An average of two first-aiders hovered over each; extra workers entertained them with cards and checkers, plied them with magazines, cigarets, candy. Miss Loretta Besa, formerly of Santiago, Chile, now a New Englander, was called in to interpret the sailors' Spanish. She took down a letter from a Puerto Rican to his wife: "Dear Wife, I am O.K. Everything is about the same." One sailor refused to eat until he found out the food was free. All his money went down with...
...elegant chef de protocole, who led the way to a commemorative plaque. After allowing Acting President Castillo a couple of tugs which failed to untwitch the covering, the officious chef de protocole unveiled the plaque with a jerk. Next he ordered photographs to be posed, driving Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello in & out of pictures until the Cardinal was hopelessly confused. When Vice Admiral Mario Fincati, Minister of Marine, was missing at the moment he should have signed, the chef de protocole peremptorily shouted: "Fincati! Fincati! Where's Fincati?-and sent dignified, elderly Dr. Melo trotting off to find...
...Santiago, demonstrators stoned a tew Axis-owned stores, the PACH newsagency and the office of the pro-Axis newspaper El Chileno. The Japanese brazenly announced convoyed resumption of Japan-to-Chile shipping, promised within a week 24,000 tons of auto accessories, motors and tires...