Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before the evil midnight when a company of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen murdered their country's most famed character, Augusto Cesar Sandino (TIME, March 5), Sandino had said: "There are now three powers in Nicaragua: President Sacasa, the Guardia and myself." Though he was dead Sandino was last week still one of Nicaragua's three powers, but the order of importance had changed...
Juan Leguia's white-mustached little old father Augusto had been President of Peru for eleven consecutive years. His family, pure Spanish, had lived in Peru since the days of the viceroys. All their loyalties, according to Juan Leguia, were for the family. Peru existed for the benefit of the Leguias and its people were dogs, to be ruled kindly but forcibly as a gentleman would govern any other kennel. Juan Leguia was prepared for his inheritance in the chaste corridors of St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass. The family's greatest pride is the fact that...
...jail the Leguias stayed until onetime President Augusto was taken ill and died and Son Juan had spent nearly two years in solitary. Sucking on his drink last week Juan Leguia gave his version of the revolution and his imprisonment...
...orchestral accompaniment. To assist at this mass with Pius XI as celebrant, 70,000 people jampacked St. Peter's. Among them were the King & Queen of Siam, the Crown Prince of Italy, 20 other European princes, and delegations led by Alfred Ildefonse Cardinal Schuster of Milan and Augusto Cardinal Hlond of Poland. Rain pelted down during the canonization but the sun appeared afterward as the Holy Father mounted the balcony facing St. Peter's square, gave his blessing urbi et orbi to Rome and the world...
Murdered. Augusto Cesar Sandino, "bandit" and U. S. Marine-baiter; in Managua, Nicaragua...