Word: demetrio
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...modern army base outside Mexico City, steel gates clanged shut on more than 1,000 railroad workers one night last week. Troops guarded stations, and the government-owned railways sent out a call for strikebreakers to man the trains. After two tries at dealing with Demetrio Vallejo, 45, the brash, baby-faced new leader of the Railway Workers Union, President Adolfo López Mateos set out to crush...
Panamanian law, though it forbids the death penalty, provides a specially tough maximum sentence of 35 years for presidential assassins. But the Assembly gave Guizado, once a prominent, well-to-do contractor, only ten years. Then it knocked off a third of that sentence on motion of Deputy Demetrio Martínez, who pointed out earnestly that the crime was Guizado's first offense...
...Demetrio Porras, Panama's Minister to London, Juan March (presumably in Portugal) grumbled: the Spanish Civil War is not over, because political prisoners are still held and there is no real unity in the country; Spain's future depends on restoration of the monarchy with support of the Leftist parties. Tycoon March denied having an active role in the movement to restore the monarchy...
...Saga of San Demetrio is a labor of patriotism by the grandniece of Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the author of the remarkable psychological study A Pin to See the Peepshow. Rather touchingly old-fashioned in its style, it is marred by such phrases as "the simple faith of sailormen" and "these unalterable British!" It suffers, inevitably, from being told at secondhand. But it is an honorable and exciting account of an exceedingly honorable, exciting-and true-event...
...November 1940 the motorship San Demetrio, well out of Halifax with 11,000 tons of gasoline, was struck amidships and on the port bow by shells from the pocket battleship Admiral von Scheer. She caught fire and her crew abandoned her. After two days 16 of her seamen, some wounded and one dying, boarded her, blazing as she was, and put out her fires. They got her in commission and sailed her by dead reckoning to Ireland. Her normal complement was 42 men. One single spark, at any moment, could have been the end of the 16 who manned...