Word: coronel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor of Alhambra (pop. 52,753), Calif, presented a big bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Nobuko Coronel, Filipino-Japanese war bride of a hometown veteran, to help convince her that she was welcome in the U.S. The greeting ceremony was arranged (and more than 70 citizens were moved to write letters of welcome) after a local citizen had sent her a note condemning her marriage to Corporal Robert A. Coronel and warning her that she was not wanted in Alhambra...
...Father Coronel's own answer was an emphatic no. True, he told the court, he and Gloria had gone through a marriage ceremony before a justice of the peace in 1948, but there were at least two invalidating circumstances: i) the marriage was never consummated; 2) Alfredo Musni was holding a gun at his back at the time. After the ceremony, Father Coronel said, he returned to his parish, finally managed to slip away from the ever-watchful Musnis and escape 600 miles away to Zamboanga. Last fall, after church authorities had declared the marriage void, Father Coronel returned...
...pregnant and crying in her room. I asked Gloria if this was true and who did it, but she kept quiet. So I hit her. Then my son Nestor arrived and I explained the matter to him. He also hit her. Then she talked. She said it was Father Coronel who did it ... The next morning I went [out] with my son . . . came back in the afternoon with Father Coronel and in the evening they were married...
...Plain Blackmail." Alfredo denied that the marriage of Father Coronel and Gloria was a shotgun affair, claimed instead that the priest himself had suggested that he marry Gloria when he learned she was pregnant. Said Alfredo: "I even asked him how it was possible for a priest to marry, and he said there is no law against it, that in America they do it all the time...
Snapped Father Coronel: "All lies . . . plain blackmail...