Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza's daughter Lillian, Apple Blossom Queen of Virginia in 1940, gets a new title Nov. 14: Queen of the Nicaraguan Army...
President Anastasio Somoza, "absolute and undisputed boss of Nicaragua," has machine guns mounted outside his palace and moves around in a bullet-proof...
...Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza took office in 1937 and promptly revamped the constitution. By resigning the Presidency (after appointing himself Acting President during his absence from office) he was able to have himself inaugurated a second time in 1939 for a longer (eight-year) term, ending in 1947. Panama's President Arnulfo Arias pushed through...