Word: elpidio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confined his depredations mainly to big banks and railroads was at least half hero. South of the Rio Grande the distinction between bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained that the assaults attributed to him over four States for a number of years were all untrue, claimed that he started robbing only as a defiant gesture against a ruthless politician who tried to wring campaign contributions...
...ring in the city of Manila. In Washington a few minutes before (noon of the day before) President Roosevelt, beaming his best smile, exclaimed: "This is a great day for you and for me!'' The gentlemen he was addressing were two Filipinos, Senators Manuel Quezon and Elpidio Quirino, who had just watched him sign the McDuffie-Tydings bill offering to make the Philippines a Commonwealth for ten years, to grant them independence thereafter. Everybody beamed but no one was genuinely elated. The McDuffie-Tydings is the old Hawes-Cutting bill (which the Philippines rejected last year) except...
Nerves 8 Brain: Lima, Dr. Honorio F. Delgado; Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Gustavo Riedel; Havana, Drs. Armando de Cordova, Elpidio Stincer, Juan Portell Vila...