Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...
Meanwhile, the Chilean Foreign Ministry had received an angry complaint from the Peruvian embassy over the moving of the ambassador's wreaths. The chief of protocol had already donned his white gloves for a trip to the Alameda to correct this outrage when news of the stolen garlands reached him. He sensibly decided to await further developments...
FRED E. DARCH Alameda, Calif...
Career. A lawyer by profession, he has been appointed to three public offices (deputy city attorney for Oakland, 1919-20; deputy district attorney of Alameda County, 1920-25; district attorney for unexpired term, 1925); elected to three (district attorney for Alameda County in 1926, re-elected in 1930 and 1934, state Attorney General, 1938; Governor in 1942, re-elected in 1946 on both Republican & Democratic tickets); never defeated in any election. He was Republican state chairman from 1934 to 1936, national committeeman from 1936 to 1938, keynoter of the National Republican Convention in Chicago in 1944 (when...
Public Record, As a prosecutor, he swept up shoals of bootleggers, con men, grifters, oil stock swindlers, bunco artists; jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft; jailed the Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries...