Word: bonilla
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...discernment and honesty, Dean J. A. Bonilla Atiles of the University of Santo Domingo's law school refused to plump for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's reelection...
Because he was also a prudent man, Dean Bonilla immediately hightailed it for the safety of the Mexican Consulate. When he emerged, on the Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...
...BONILLA Consul General of Costa Rica New York City
...Yardling, Michael K. Clark, of Hollis Hall and New York City, was informed by mail that he and Miss Janet Thompson had been appointed as foster parents over a tiny Spanish refugee, Concha Romero Bonilla, who is at present being taken care of in a children's colony near Biarritz in Southern France...
When his three chief revolutionists arrived in Biloxi, Miss., on the Zemurray yacht one cold December night in 1910 on their way to Honduras, Samuel Zemurray went below and cooked a dinner for Manuel Bonilla, next President of Honduras. He left his coat over the shoulders of shivering General Bonilla. Said he: ''Hell Manuel, I've shot the roll on you. I might as well shoot the coat too." He is now shooting his roll on United Fruit and few expect him to lose...