Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important than it had been as a reference source, and is now markedly superior to any in Germany. The last decade has also witnessed an increased consciousness of American methods. For the first time the Museum is now training personnel for such countries as Egypt, Pakistan, Spain, and Holland. Brazil has also asked for advice on its state collection...
...representing Trujillo's legal interests and performing "such other services as required" in the U.S., Roosevelt's new law firm in Washington will get a handsome retainer of $60,000 for two years. F.D.R. Jr.'s partner is Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, now a lobbyist for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, but better known for socking the nose of Columnist Drew Pearson in 1952 (Clark got off with a $25 fine...
...Never Was (20thCentury-Fox). One morning in the spring of 1943, the body of a man in the uniform of the Royal Marines was washed ashore on the coast of Spain. He carried valuable papers indicating that the next Allied thrust was to be in Greece rather than Sicily. Would the Germans get this skillfully planted misinformation? If they did, would they...
...When I Wish." Inigo de Loyola was born the year before Columbus discovered America, to a Basque family of impoverished nobility in Spain. As a boy he was a page at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, up to his young ears in palace intrigue and frivolity. He burned to be a famous warrior and knight. But when he was 14 a court intrigue misfired, and Ignatius went out to seek his glory elsewhere...
...defines "Jesuitic" as "designing; crafty; as, a Jesuitical trick." The Jesuits have as persistently and meticulously fought the charge and elucidated the oft-small but decisive difference between unprincipled expediency and principled pragmatism. The order has suffered reverses and reprisals. In 1773, under political pressure from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Naples and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order, and in the next 40 years it dwindled in membership from 23,000 to 600. During that time, when many Jesuits sought peace in the new U.S., John Adams warned Thomas Jefferson against them: "If ever there was a body...