Word: bello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morgan was primarily a land fighter. His plan was to cripple Spain's power in the Caribbean by raiding and destroying her chief ports. He sacked successively Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, Gibraltar, Panama City. When he stormed the last defences of Porto Bello he forced captured monks and nuns to carry the scaling ladders; it tickled him to see the Spaniards forced to shoot down their sacred compatriots. At the fight at Matasnillos the Spaniards stampeded 1,500 bulls against the buccaneers: Morgan's men indulged in no matadorean antics, routed the bulls with a musket volley...
...education. He can read and write a little, does odd jobs for his brother, but gets into bullheaded trouble. A Cuban Senator, he thinks he wants to control the party machine of the Liberal Party of Santa Clara Province. Santa Clara's boss is now Juan Antonio Vasquez Bello, Machado henchman and brother of Machado's late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent...
...socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow of President Clemente Vasquez Bello of the Cuban Senate (assassinated last autumn). After the ceremony the Walshes flew toward Washington for the Inaugural. Declared Senator Walsh: "I expect to take two months vacation to show my wife the beauties of Montana...
...Scotland he organized the "Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies." In 1698, "amidst the tears and prayers of relatives and friends and countrymen," he, his wife and child accompanied 1,200 colonists to Darien. They settled between Porto Bello and Cartagena, two strong Spanish ports, there intended to build a canal and establish a free trade route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family...
...deal now passed to the Porra who promptly raided the home of Dr. Cuervo Rubio and arrested Angel Alvarez Fernandez, a student, on suspicion in connection with the September murder of Dr. Bello. Student Alvarez also "attempted to escape," was shot through the head...