Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...river from Buenos Aires, Don Aaron de Anchorena held a hunting party last week. Don Aaron's father-in-law owns La Prensa of Buenos Aires, biggest newspaper in South America. His guests were two good friends, Foreign Minister Julio Argentino Roca of Argentina and Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay. They went there, not so much to hunt as to discuss the defense of the Western Hemisphere's most strategic waterway south of the Panama Canal: the Rio de la Plata, which in English means River of Silver, though the English call it River Plate...
...pouch was found $2,000,000 in U. S. currency, and by inference this branded the Italian Minister to Mexico, Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio, as a major paymaster of Axis fifth columnists...
...success of his regime in decreasing illiteracy and redistributing land to the peasants. In the Chamber's jampacked diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio frowned, grimaced, twitched. Behind them U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, knowing no Spanish, beamed with vacuous amiability. There was not much clarification in the session, although it was Cárdenas' farewell address to his troubled nation. And in farewell he placed his official blessing...
...support was prompt and as officers of the Quincy gathered at the Jockey Club for a luncheon given in their honor by Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Guani, American Minister to Uruguay Edwin...
...Ciano. After the Po maneuver's fiasco, Il Duce cleaned house. As his first step, out went his Under Secretaries for War and Air, Alberto Pariani and Giuseppe Valle, because they had concealed the true state of Italy's war machine from their boss. Out went violently pro-German Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace and Minister of Popular Culture (Propaganda) Oboardo Dino Alfieri. These dismissals had the effect of raising the prestige of Il Duce's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who loathed Ribbentrop and Hitler for treating him like a naive youngster...