Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cairo's cabarets first heard the sultry voice of Amal el Atrash 20 years...
...Ubico's downfall reduced the "Dictators' Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...
...elected President of Honduras in 1932, twice extended his term without elections. Several times he put down revolts, left his prisons full of political enemies in spite of petitions from other Latin countries. Now he faced a growing storm of popular rebellion. Across the border of newly freed El Salvador, Honduran exiles were eagerly crowding, filling the free Salvadoran press with at tacks upon...
There was discrimination at every turn. Negro troops being shipped through El Paso, Texas, were barred from the Harvey House restaurant at the depot and given cold handouts. They could see German prisoners of war seated in the restaurant and fed hot food...
...necked, nationalist Old Guard, who do not or will not see the satire in his act, loathe him as the leader of "the barbarian invasion from the North." Nevertheless, Tin Tan today is not only the wonder boy of the Folies Bergere, but a headliner at the swanky, touristy El Patio, a regular over Mexico's powerful radio station XEW, and has contracts in his pocket to tour Latin America and star in three cinemusicals...