Word: costa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very coldly the Princes received this speech. They were no more pleased when II Telegrafo, mouthpiece of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, thumbed down as a "political" Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli, nominated as a Pastor Angelicas, predicted in old prophecies, the pious Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal dalla Costa. Since as a rule the Roman Catholic Church prefers to lead opinion rather than follow it, Il Telegrafo's nomination could be considered a death-kiss...
...name of Elias Cardinal Della Costa, 67, Archbishop of Florence, headed the list...
...banana republic anything can happen but the most unusual thing is for a President to put the country's constitution above his own personal interests. Last week Costa Rica's President, handsome, large-nosed Leon Cortes Castro, did the unusual. He squelched the suggestion of his supporters that he ignore the Constitution and succeed himself in office when his first four-year term expires in May 1940. Said President Cortes: "I will never . . . convert myself into a tyrant...
...late Jean Harlow, had asked him to outfit and man his vessel so that Bello and friends-notably Countess Dorothy di Frasso, a nurse named Evelyn Husby, and Richard E. Fulley, a cousin of Anthony Eden-could hunt for gold on Cocos Island, some 300 miles southwest of Costa Rica. Hoffmann signed on a crew consisting of three able-bodied seamen, a few waterfront hangers-on, some fine-looking NYA boys from Long Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed off a breakwater, burned out a bearing. Bello...
This situation, however, was no embarrassment to Dictator Benavides. for of the 21 "democracies" represented at the Conference, only nine-U. S., Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Uruguay- could be defined as States under popular rule. Said Strong Man Benavides, with more subtlety than he perhaps intended: "We cannot offer you, on as grand a scale as some of the other American nations, the harmonious spectacle of a great city that could shelter you as could other capitals. But we do claim your attention to the evolutionary processes of our nationality...