Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Federico Smith, son of an English trader and a hero of the Chaco War, had taken over as Commander in Chief of the Government forces. He promised "peace at a small cost in blood and money...
...well-trained troops, Smith probably had the edge, for his most effective fighters included a case-hardened cavalry division and contingents of marines. Smith's opposite number in the rebel camp was tantalum-tough, moonfaced ex-President Rafael Franco, leader of the vaguely leftist Febrerista Party...
...Smith, who drafted Yale's Fritz Barzilauskas in the National League pool this fall, came over to the Indoor Athletic Building to view his prospective charge in action on the celluloid, but emerged with some new ideas from an afternoon's session with the films and some of the Crimson coaches...
President Harry Truman's proposal of aid to Greece is "a new beginning in world politics," Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith College told the United Nations Council Forum at Phillips Brooks House last night...
Yardling Hugh Smith and crewman Temple Morgan topped the evening's card, and, in an excellent boxing exhibition, Morgan outpointed the Carolinian to annex the 165-pound crown. Wigglesworth's 135-pound Russ Bath and John Dwyer of Thayer raced through three fast rounds, with wily, polished-looking Bath taking the honors...