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Pleased too was the swart, chunky gentleman for whom this swankest military State reception in Washington history had been staged by Franklin Roosevelt, He was only General Anastasio Somoza, President of little Nicaragua (pop. 1,133,000), but this show for him was in all details precisely the reception planned for King George & Queen Elizabeth of mighty Great Britain next month. Fact that it was a dress rehearsal for that occasion did not diminish the fact that it came first, that it was as handsome a performance as any Latin-American heart could desire, that it was a gesture intended...
...Anastasio Somoza visited the U. S. 22 years ago, to enroll in a Philadelphia night school to study accounting. When President Coolidge sent the marines to Nicaragua to suppress revolutionary Augusto
...Jorge Ubico of Guatemala awarded the Order's Grand Cross to King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Premier Benito Mussolini, Presidents Albert Lebrun of France, Lin Sen of China, Maxmiliano Martinez of El Salvador, Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras, Leon Cortes of Costa Rica, Alfonso Lopez of Colombia, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Stenio Vincent of Haiti "for personal merits and friendship to Guatemala...
...months ago General Anastasio Somoza was just another rebel; last week he was elected President of Nicaragua...
Chased out of Nicaragua by his niece's husband, General Anastasio Somoza, and Somoza's U. S.-trained National Guard (TIME, June 15), Nicaragua's legal President Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa last week found an attitude of hurt dignity his only recourse in his sanctuary in San Salvador. "The military coup of a reprehensible character," said he, "was executed by the abuse of my confidence. . . . I must confess frankly that because of the repeated protests by Somoza of his loyalty, his prospects and his connection with my family [technically making Somoza ineligible for the Presidency, under Nicaraguan...