Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Clement Dunn won wide respect as an urbane, wise, influential foreign-service officer. As U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-52), he merited the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for helping defeat the Communists in the critical 1948 elections (partially by dramatizing U.S. aid). As Ambassador to Spain (1953-55), he helped develop the new U.S. policy of good relations with Franco. Moving on to booming Brazil in February 1955, he concentrated on touring remote jungles and backwaters by jeep, plane and dugout canoe, impressed Brazilians by his outspoken sympathy and support. "I wish I were younger...
Rome and Salzburg have become two of the most popular tourist attractions in Europe, according to booking figures. Switzerland and Italy remain important stops on most itineraries, while Spain and the Scandinavian countries, now readily accessible by air, are also attracting more tourists...
...last time Tito saw Paris was as an undercover Communist agent during the Spanish civil war. Traveling on forged papers as a Czech named Jaromir Havlicek, he set up headquarters in a Left Bank fleabag to arrange the dispatch of 1,500 Yugoslav volunteers to fight for Loyalist Spain. The police kept...
...cattle business started off with Christopher Columbus, who took hardy, long-horned Moorish stock from Spain's Andalusian plains and dropped them off in 1493 at Santo Domingo on his second voyage. From there they were taken to Mexico. Half a century later Coronado, bound north in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, drove 500 head across the Rio Grande for food along the way. Some escaped, and the famed longhorn found a home in Texas...
Earning the Title. After Appomattox, all should have been an anticlimax. But Dan Sickles went on to be Minister to Spain by appointment of President Grant. In Madrid he tried to cozen the Spanish out of Cuba without a war and earned the derisive title, "Yankee King of Spain'' by his trips to Paris to make love to the deposed Spanish Queen Isabella...