Word: baudilio
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...became Provisional President in 1926, following the death of President Jose Maria Orellana, was soon elected for a full six-year term. Quiet, businesslike, he governed ably, suspended the Constitution once, kept Guatemala's perennial rebels in check until his physical breakdown. Four Presidents have followed: Dr. Baudilio Palma, General Manuel Orellana. Dr. Jose Maria Reina Andrade, General Jorge Ubico...
This could best be done by forcing the successful revolutionist, General Manuel Orellana, to resign as president of Guatemala. The joke of the whole business was of course not that Revolutionist Orellana had seized the presidency but that he had seized it from one Baudilio Palma who obtained it the week before from original President Lazaro Chacon. The joke which Washington wanted uncracked was that Washington had recognized the second of Guatemala's three successive presidents...
...matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found highly acceptable to the Guatemalan Congress. Apparently he was highly acceptable to the U. S. State Department as well. Within three days President Hoover sent a telegram to Senor Palma "wishing the Acting President success in his office," thus...
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