Word: senor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British supply house. Great Britain has $2,000,000,000 invested in the Argentine (the U. S. about $700,000,000); the British own the biggest Argentine railroad; have customarily taken 40% of all Argentine exports. But where blandishments failed, disillusionment succeeded. Not Munich, but the cash register, disillusioned Senor Lamas, who saw that Britain was steadily shifting its agricultural trade to its colonies, that the Argentine was being set up only as a great emergency storehouse for wartime food supplies...
...Cortes, his marriage to handsome Señorita Polo, sister of Señora Franco. His war record included an escape from Madrid's Model Prison, a trip to Germany to be feted by Nazis. But in the 18 months that he has been Minister of the Interior, Senor Serrano has outshone his plodding, unimaginative brother-in-law, stolen the show from the Spanish Generals whom he accompanied on a trip to Rome, become the leading figure of the Falangists. Ardently pro-Nazi, contemptuous of conservatives who see no point in scaring off possible British financial...
...greatest victories to date. Cabinet decree suddenly suspended further public meetings, called up groups of officers who had been demobilized at the end of the war, speeded the Army's reorganization. Forbidden were all gatherings except Catholic religious processions and services. Only with the written permission of Senor Serrano could meetings be held. Only if he agreed could descriptions of such meetings be published. Another blow for independent Generals and Carlists, Senor Serrano's decrees made it plain that the Falangists were winning the peace, that after three years the signs that e war had been fought were...
Back cracked rasp-voiced Charlie Hardy, saying that Senor Cintas was a disgruntled, discharged employe dealing in "misstatements and half statements." Back cracked Oscar Cintas with the charge that the Hardy law firm (Hardy, Stancliffe & Hardy) was making a good thing out of Car & Foundry. (The company paid the firm $12,825 in legal fees for the last fiscal year...
...Spanish Foreign Minister Count Francisco de Jordana before French recognition of the Franco Government. French Premier Daladier demanded that Spain first take back all of the 400,000 Spanish refugees on French soil who want to go back, and pay for the support of the rest. Upshot was that Senor Lequerica threatened to return to Burgos for good. Premier Daladier's Government did not seem to care much...