Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happened was that the National Guard merely became a third party and General Somoza, for all his kinship to the President, went out for the Presidency with all his U. S. guns. Two years ago Somoza's men assassinated his chief enemy, famed Rebel Augusto Cesar Sandino. Last month President Sacasa tried desperately to stall off his kinsmen by getting Nicaragua's two parties to agree to nominate only one Presidential candidate for Nicaragua's elections next autumn, first since the Marines left...
Meantime socialite Washington got the idea that Joe Davies was bursting with diplomatic aspirations. Although the usual way to nail a foreign job is to play "fat cat" to the Administration in power at home, Joe Davies recently entertained French Ambassador André de Laboulaye and Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso with their respective staffs at lavish stag dinners in Washington's Shoreham Hotel. Joe Davies' best bet seems to be the U. S. Embassy in Paris, for Jesse Straus, present U. S. Ambassador to France, is supposed to be ready to retire because of poor health. Some opposition...
...Washington sentiments more refined but no less friendly to Ethiopia were conveyed by that snowy-crested Tennesseean, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to pained and noncommittal Italian Ambassador Augusto Russo. Mr. Hull, putting his very soul into the word, said that the Adminis-tration was "concerned." That he should be so, retorted Italian Government officials next day, caused them to be "surprised" and there the matter rested, except that Benito Mussolini gave one of his now extremely rare direct quotation interviews to Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor Jr. of the St. Louis Star-Times...
...manufacture 13,000 Ib. of heroin, four times the legitimate needs of the entire world. Col. Charles Henry Sharman of Canada charged that Bulgarian production of raw opium rose from 8,880 Ib. in 1931 to 99,000 Ib. in 1932, to 143,000 Ib. in 1933. Dr. Augusto de Vasconcellos of Portugal summed up: "The figure cited by Mr. Fuller is sufficient to kill millions of people, and where murder is involved it is imperative to take strong measures." Dimitri Mikoff, Bulgaria's representative at the League, knew that these figures were accurate, knew that this time...
There appears on p. 23 of your April 9 issue of TIME magazine an article under the heading of Foreign News which sets out an interview with one Juan Leguia. As a Peruvian and as the son of Eugenio Larrabure, former vice president of Peru, serving during Augusto B. Leguia's first term, I want to take most emphatic exception to the slanderous and malicious statements which your article attributes to this person...