Word: simpatico
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Latinos had always found New Orleans simpatico. It was linked to them by the traditions of Bourbon Spain. Its easy graces, Gallic sauces, gaiety and gambling had been a consolation to Latin American political exiles since Jean Lafitte made common cause with the struggling republic of Cartagena...
Infatuated Benito Mussolini often followed Claretta's counsel on foreign policy. During the Spanish Civil War General Francisco Franco petitioned Rome for two more divisions. "What shall I do?" the Duce asked his paramour. "Bimbo," she replied, "do send the divisions. General Franco is so simpatico." When the time came to attack Greece, Claretta approved because the Greek Ambassador had snubbed her at diplomatic receptions...
...peons regarded Governor Gore as simpatico because he was a Catholic and had nine children. But when he legalized cockfighting, faint were the huzzahs for putting a legal face on an open practice. His proposals that landed estates be subdivided into small farms, that the legal interest rate be reduced from 12% to 8% infuriated the island's monied classes. The students rebelled when he appointed an unschooled trustee to the University of Puerto Rico's board. The politicos rebelled when he asked appointees for undated resignations in advance. Having fallen into every political pitfall the Legislative opposition...
...insular affairs but because he had loudly thumped for President Roosevelt's election in his string of Florida newspapers, had made it plain in Washington that he wanted an appointment in return. Though he had had no experience in public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor James Rumsey Beverley, found it difficult to understand Governor Gore's blunt and open manner. He sought...
...John Oliver McReynolds, a Dallas eye man, had Dr. Agramonte's place as Congress president. During the week he became president of the Pan-American Medical Association, succeeding Havana's bland, simpatico Dr. Francisco Maria Fernandez. Ophthalmologist McReynolds' presidency made Dallas doubly proud. His rival for the glory of being Dallas' most prominent eye doctor is Dr. Edward Henry Gary, currently in the public eye as president of the American Medical Association...