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Marquis or Postal Clerk? They had no elaborate plans, but simply awaited the opportunity. Last week, tipped off that The Benefactor was on his way to see his mistress, they caught up with him on the road to San Cristobal, the town where it all began 69 years...
Model Strongman. In the 31st year of the Era of Trujillo, Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Rebuilder of the Financial Independence of the Republic, Father of the New Fatherland, Chief Protector of the Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every...
...effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal threats and public incitement against the church, the Dominican bishops informed Trujillo that they wished "to continue cooperating." As a token of capitulation, the dictator demanded the title "Benefactor of the Church," a distinction last conferred on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...
...come. First before the court came the lawyer for John H. Chiles Jr., 57, a vice president of Westinghouse, to plead for mercy. His client, said the lawyer, while Chiles bowed his head, was a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church in Sharon, Pa. and a benefactor of charities for crippled children and cancer victims. "These men," the lawyer pleaded, "are not grasping, greedy, cutthroat competitors...
Trujillo's stooge government also sent the bishops a letter containing his bill for ending the persecution: "The circumstances are propitious for you to support the initiative to grant to his Excellency the title of BENEFACTOR OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH." The title was last granted to Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...