Word: vila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading candidates to succeed him: Vice President Eugene A. Luxenberger, 54, who started as a teen-age production hand 36 years ago, will now take over the newly created post of group vice president for the tire, mechanical goods, footwear and general-products divisions; Vice President George R. Vila, 48, a Wesleyan-trained chemist ('32) who helped pioneer the development of synthetic rubber, will now become U.S. Rubber's group vice president for subsidiaries and the important chemical, textile, international and plantation divisions...
Died. Carlos Dávila, 68, Provisional President of Chile in 1932, Ambassador to the U.S. 1927-31, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States since 1954, noted South American journalist and editor; of cancer; in Washington...
Among those from Latin America who will talk are: Carlos Dávila, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States; Martín del Corral, director of the Banco de la República; Eduardo Suárez, former Secretary of Finance of Mexico; and Luis Roberto Vidigal, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the state of São Paulo...
With all his command of water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...
...Friends. By this time the "Gann-Longworth feud" was one of the nation's prime concerns. When it became known that Dolly would make her first appearance as Second Lady of the Land at a dinner to be given by Chilean Ambassador Carlos Dávila, citizens who wanted to witness her hour of triumph bid $100 for an invitation to the party. Finally, at 8:00 p.m. on April 11, 1929, buxom (180 Ibs.) Dolly Gann took the arm of diminutive (100 Ibs.) Carlos Dávila and marched to the head of the table. Alice Roosevelt Longworth...