Word: silva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...
...barter to help reduce its surplus. Into the Brazilian Embassy on 18th Street marched George Milnor, who as general manager of Grain Stabilization Corp. is official custodian for some 200,000,000 bu. of U. S. wheat. There he was greeted by suave, dark Ambassador Rinaldo de Lima e Silva. After exchanging amenities, they sat down together at a table, squiggled their names to a document. When they got up and shook hands, the U. S. had contracted to trade Brazil 25,000,000 bu. of wheat for 1,050,000 bags of Sao Paulo coffee...
Married, Katherine Silva Cornell, 17. heiress to the late Oilman Robert Oglesby; and Count Jan Drohojowski, Berlin correspondent for the Kurjer Poznanski of Poznan (Posen), Poland; in Tulsa, Okla. Headlined the New York Telegram: COUNT WEDS...
...undergraduates in the College, including two freshmen. The feminine roles are taken by Boston debutantes. The list of players is as follows: Albert, V. E. Blaque '34; Grand Duke Paul, Brinckerhoff Jackson '32: Grand Duke Pierre, W. A. C. Miller III '32; Matard, Charles Fowler '33; Floshe, F. F. Silva '34; The Prince, Gilbert Kerlin '33; Xenia, Kathleen Chase: Countess Avaloff. Beatrice Clough; Henriette, Lorraine Warner; Anna, Camilla Brown...
...land, almost three times as big as Belgium, on the eastern point of the bulge of Brazil. The late Joao Pessoa was more than its Governor. He was the defeated National Democrat (Liberal) candidate for Vice President of the United States of Brazil, brother of learned, esteemed Epitacio Da Silva Pessoa, onetime (1919-22) President of Brazil, now World Court judge. He was also distributor of all the political patronage in Parahyba...