Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Peruvian and Ecuadorian soldiers tangled around the border mark and the two nations exchanged heated re-monstrances. The entire Cabinet of army officers, under Ecuador's military dictator, General G. Alberto Enriquez, resigned in a body to take their places in the army, were replaced last week with civilian ministers. All week mobs roamed the plazas of Quito, Ecuador's little capital, chanting "Down With Peru! Long Live Ecuador!" Peru's Foreign Minister Carlos Concha was calmer. "In Peru we have not yet lost our heads. Our country is in a process of prosperous development...
Seven weeks ago General Alberto Enriquez, Provisional President and leader of the military clique that has ruled Ecuador since 1935, tackled the problem of political corruption by decreeing that all Government employes who had banked more than their official income during the past two years must prove the source of other income or be tried for appropriating Government funds...
...improvement on German, Polish and Rumanian methods of dealing with Jews was last week announced by Ecuador's Provisional President, General Alberto Enriquez. In an order not affecting Jews born in Ecuador, he decreed that all Jewish aliens not now engaged in farming must become farmers within 30 days or leave the country...
...injunction was refused to the Longa Co. and Hacendado Alberto Danadieu: who sought to stop further land expropriation in the State of Sonora. Pudgy-cheeked President Cardenas made plans to supervise personally the land-division in Sonora, where are located the haciendas of such newsmaking names as Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the John Hays Hammond estate, the Richardson Co. of Arizona...
...Since 1935 a tight little military group has ruled Ecuador. In September of that year they booted out Dr. Antonio Pons and replaced him with Páez as dictator. Last week, without leaving the saddle, the army coterie boosted into the Provisional Presidency War Minister Alberto Enríquez, who modestly admitted "the duties are too heavy for my shoulders." Showing no signs of this weakness, he dissolved the National Assembly, announced that he had assumed "supreme power . . . in the name of the National Army." At week's end he inaugurated a "national political purge" to punish those...