Word: chichi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beefy, bustling Chichi Remón long ago erased the word mañana from his personal operations. He joined the police, Panama's only armed force, in 1931, and immediately began moving up. After wartime training in the U.S., he became police chief and his country's strong man in 1947. Since then, he has made and unmade five Presidents. When one of them tried to ease him out of his job in 1949, he fired the President in a pre-dawn coup. Prosperous (from cattle and other private interests) and powerful, Chichi was content to stay...
...word mañana will be erased from our administration," Panama's new President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón told a crowd of 20,000 Panamanians in his inaugural address last week. Taking over a government that is $40 million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with...
...just a year ago that Chichi had to throw out one of his presidential stand-ins. Arnulfo Arias, Panama's Messianic champion demagogue, had begun to feel that being President made him boss; he plotted to extend his term. Remón's cops laid siege to the palace, got Arnulfo's surrender after 18 persons were killed. Chichi put a malleable dairyman into office, and began to listen to urgent advice from his wife Cecilia to run for President himself...
...Cousinly Campaign. The republic's nine major parties split, regrouped and came back with five backing Chichi and four supporting Sugar Producer Roberto ("Nino") Chiari, who, as it happens, is Chichi's cousin. "Ceci" Remón made herself Chichi's campaign manager, stumping the country making speeches and giving away cooking pots, packets of seed and bottles of medicine, all bearing plugs for Remón. Chiari warned voters against a military man; Remón countered that a highly respected general name of Eisenhower was running for President in a country to the north...
This week the little land's long vote-count began. Chichi was confident. "I'm no gambler," said he, "but I'll bet Nino $10,000 on this election and spot him 5,000 votes...