Word: coco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen from among New Orleans debutantes to be Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora...
...Cuban politics a zero hour came last week when opponents of provisional President Carlos Mendieta hired suburban Havana radio station CMQ to criticize the new electoral plan devised by Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds (TIME, Dec. 16) and radio station COCO announced a speech in praise of the plan to be made by the Chief Executive. Day of the speeches the Communications Department ordered CMQ to cancel its anti-Dodds speech...
Three hours before it was time for the Mendieta speech over COCO 16 men with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
While Zepeda lingered in Mexico City, Nicaraguan National Guardsmen prowled about Sandino's back-country stronghold on the Rio Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...lake a pink plume of smoke rose from Mount Momotombo, most perfect of the volcanoes Sandino and his countrymen reverence as their national emblem. Farther north; 100 mi. through the jungle, was the peacetime residue of his followers, sleeping among the farms and mines of his El Cooperative Rio Coco settlement. When the car reached the main palace gate, it was stopped by a squad of native guardsmen. The little brown men waved their rifles, ordered everybody out of the machine. They pushed aside Father Sandino and the Minister of Agriculture. Sandino, his brother and his two generals they hustled...