Word: estradas
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...President of the Philippine Islands would have no truck with euphemisms. Well did he know that if the Filipinos, no prudes, ever caught him in a lie, they would certainly suspect him of suffering from a disability worse than gallstones. Therefore shrewd Politico Quezon ordered Dr. Januario R. Estrada, his personal physician and traveling companion, to telegraph a full and simple description of Dr. Young's operation to the Philippine Press. United Press helped Dr. Estrada by cabling to Manila at reduced press rates the following astonishingly frank report...
...Cross nurses with stimulants and concentrated food preparations moved to Mixcoac Hill on the second day. The newspaper National thought the broadcasters were improving as their hunger increased. Senor Esperanza Estrada sang "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You," fainted dead away...
...Lopez said. 'Why?' asked Sandino. 'I am sure there must be some mistake. Telephone General Somoza and see if there is not a mistake.' The lieutenant telephoned Somoza. He returned and told Sandino that he was to be shot in accordance with superior orders. Sandino, Estrada and Umanzor [his two favorite generals] were then taken to a place where a grave had been dug some days before. They were tortured in an effort to make them confess that they were planning a revolution and, when they naturally refused to confess a thing of which they were...
...Presidential Palace and stepped into his car. His stomach was warm with the fine dinner his oldtime friend and fellow rebel, President Juan B. Sacasa, had given him. He was among friends: the father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine...
...constitutional reforms of 1928 by which Boss Machado was able to pack Congress and the judiciary with his own henchmen, announced new general elections for Feb. 24, 1934. and restored intact the Cuban Constitution of 1901 which was inaugurated under Cuba's first and best President, the late Estrada Palma...