Word: amaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first award of the newest U.S. medal, the Legion of Merit, to Chief Nurse Anna Bernatitus for "courageous and outstanding performance of duty during the Manila-Bataan campaign, December 1941 to April 1942." The week before, President Roosevelt had awarded the Legion of Merit to an ally, Brigadier General Amaro Scares Bittencourt, onetime Brazilian military attache in Washington...
Recalled: the prediction of one-eyed Mexican General Joaquin Amaro that "the time will come when Latin America will have to furnish 10,000,000 troops to the Allies...
...either in Texas or in northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...
...hrer Dietrich does not openly support either President Cárdenas' hand-picked candidate General Manuel Avila Camacho, or his more conservative opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán. He is banking on a revolution and his man is believed to be General Joaquín Amaro, dark, chunky, glass-eyed ex-War Minister who is known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposición. Uncommitted politically, he is regarded...
Troublesome already is General Joaquin Amaro, who made himself unpopular with the Army by putting it to work and now talks like a fascist. Nazi agents, who immigrated as refugees, help to spread his ideas. Though General Amaro's followers are few, his nuisance value is great. Among rumors floating around Mexico last week was one that backers of Cardenas would persuade him to "oppress" General Amaro, thereby driving him to insurrection. If a "state of unrest" exists at election time, the election can be postponed...