Word: cardona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Figueres prepared to transform the army into a national police force, Cardona tried to slip one of his right-wing friends in as police chief. The President refused him. Disappointed, Cardona seized the capital's two main forts one afternoon last week and tried to stage a coup...
Taciturn, thirtyish Edgar Cardona is what Costa Ricans call a "finger soldier" -i.e., a soldier who has received his rank through favoritism ("Somebody points a finger at you and says: 'You're a corporal; you're a captain; you're a colonel.'"). In last year's civil war, Cardona was a colonel. Afterwards, Junta President Jose Figueres kept him on as Security Minister, even though he took to hobnobbing around San Jose with the President's conservative enemies...
...rambling frame palace, he rushed to grab the most commanding site in town, the five-story Gran Hotel Costa Rica, then set up headquarters in the Pacific Railway station. Isolating the forts, he laid siege to the troops inside. Some rebels quickly deserted. Thereupon Figueres attacked and Cardona immediately surrendered...
FARLOW HOUSE Dugald BurnsSally Baird, Watertown, N. Y. Jack Jlison Eleanor Igleheart, Wheaton Edward H. Mahoney Shirley Carpenter, Newton Jack Torgan Edith Warren, Radcliffe GRAYS HALL Francisco J. Cardona Nancy Larson, Lasoll Donald B. Colo Nancy Todd, Wilmington John W. Ellison Ruthabeth Kreuger, Winchester Richard B. Fawcott Eleanor Downing, Waltham Bradley Fisher Dean Brinckerhoff, New Canaan, Conn. William E. Fuller, Jr. Barbara Jordan, Bancroft George H. L. Gerard Norma Chapiro, New York, N. Y. Howard R. Gleason Elizabeth Stearns, North Cohasset John W. Green Virginia Getz, Morton, Ill. E. Pierce Johnson Sally Chamberlin, Belmont Robert D. Kemble Sally Foss, Concord...