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...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...Ayers had been trying to get an interview with President Arosemena at the height of the revolution. Had he not been shot, he would have been with Senor Arosemena as the President faced and quailed before the revolutionist who possessed the riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Menaced pointblank with Death, President Arosemena appointed as his Secretary of Government & Justice (Prime Minis ter") the No. 1 revolutionist, Senor Harmodio Arias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...Vatican City last week the sharp-eyed nuns who now inspect the costumes of women about to be received in papal audience,* refused to pass the wife and daughter of Panama's distinguished Foreign Minister J. Demóstenes Arosemena. Flushed and embarrassed these ladies hastily sought a modiste not far from the Vatican, bought gowns with longer skirts and sleeves, returned, were passed by the nuns, knelt and received the blessing of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pontifex Maximus, Pope Pius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Gentlemen of Verona | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, a mechanical engineer, was elected President of Panama last week, thus perpetuating the regime of the Liberal party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Pure and Fair | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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