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...Augusto Cesar Sandino walked slowly through the white portico of Nicaragua's Presidential Palace and stepped into his car. His stomach was warm with the fine dinner his oldtime friend and fellow rebel, President Juan B. Sacasa, had given him. He was among friends: the father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses...
...Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...Park & Planning Commission, President Roosevelt's uncle, offered for sale, through the American Civic Association, handkerchiefs 28-in. square whose design, in six colors, is a map of historic Washington & environs. Proceeds will go to the George Washington Memorial Parkway Fund. Price: $1. ¶ Talking with Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso and Commander Nicolo Sananelli of the Italian War Veterans, President Roosevelt revealed that while on a walking tour in Italy in 1860 his father James had entered Naples during a siege, had received from the great Garibaldi himself one of the Liberator's red shirts...
...spacious office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division.* Other callers included Spain's de Cardenas, Sweden's Bostrom, Czechoslovakia's Veverka, Denmark...
Surgery: Buenos Aires, Dr. Jose Arce; Callao, Dr. E. A. McCornack; Panama, Dr. Augusto Samuel Boyd; Mexico City, Drs. Ulises Valdes, Abelardo Monges Lopez, Jose Torres Torija; Havana, Drs. Ricardo Nunez Portuondo, Ernesto R. de Aragon...