Word: alvarez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...derby hat and was winging toward Geneva. As a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Adolf Hitler, some of whose German bombing planes were strafing the Red militia in Spain last week (see p. 19). the British and French lobbied furiously in efforts to prevent Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo from asking the Assembly of the League of Nations to do something about Portuguese-German-Italian aid to the Spanish Whites and about the Great Powers embargo denying arms to Madrid. In a Geneva newspaper article signed by Portuguese Foreign Minister Dr. Armindo Rodriguez de Ittau Monteiro, he strongly hinted...
Like many another medical specialist, Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic suffers from the disease he cures in other people. In Dr. Alvarez' case the ailment is stomach ulcers. Last week, looking and feeling better than he has in years. Dr. Alvarez went to Atlantic City to attend a meeting of the American Gastro-Enterological Association, of which he was president in 1928 and which has a special lecture named in his honor...
...last week's meeting Dr. Alvarez, speaking from his personal experiences, told stomach specialists to beware of foods which harm their patients in strange ways. "Since I found that I was abnormally sensitive to chicken and stopped eating it," said he, "life has been much easier...
...patients was a businessman who became abnormally drowsy at 11 o'clock every morning, fell asleep at conferences and while driving his automobile. Dr. Alvarez: "I had him test, one by one, the things he ate customarily at breakfast, and eventually we found that it was the cream in his coffee. Eliminating the cream ended the trouble. It is absolutely startling to see how food influences the brain...
Last week's match appeared genuine if for no other reason than Shikat's an nounced aversion to "fixed" bouts. This testimony was revealed last month when one Joe Alvarez, who claimed to be his manager, sought an injunction to keep Shikat from wrestling Baba in Detroit. Shikat frankly admitted that before three recent bouts, a man had pushed his way into his dressing room, instructed him to "lay down," lose the match. These orders he had faithfully executed until last March. Then, indignant at having to lose all the time, he disobeyed his dressing room order...