Word: federico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Salvadoran Supreme Court declared Colonel Aguirre's Government unconstitutional. With this open incite ment to revolution, Chief Justice Miguel Tomas Molina fled to the Guatemalan Embassy. Into Guatemala, which last week ousted Dictator Federico Ponce in a lively revolution of its own, fled Doctor Jorge Sol Castellanos, President of the Credit Banks of El Salvador. All the country's banks closed their doors...
Young officers, students and workers last week captured Lend-Lease guns and armored cars to smash General Federico Ponce's Guatemalan dictatorship. When the shooting stopped, a provisional triumvirate ruled Guatemala: Captain Jacobo Arbenz, 28-year-old son of a Swiss druggist, who planned the revolt; Major Francisco Xavier Arana, and Jorge Toriello, son of one of Guatemala's first families...
...revolt had been smoldering since last July, when an uprising ousted Dictator Jorge Ubico. By pretending that he would hold free elections for the first time in 23 years, General Federico Ponce got himself elected as temporary President by the Ubico-picked Legislature...
Unsmiling General. When Guatemala's hated Dictator Jorge Ubico resigned the presidency, he delegated power to a junta of three generals. The leader, hard and unsmiling Federico Ponce, promptly convoked Ubico's hand-picked Congress, over awed it by stationing troops at the doors. Obediently, the deputies elected him Provisional President. Five young lawyers who protested were slapped into jail. Ponce's government won astonishingly prompt U.S. approval...
...made big money in brewing, banking and real estate. Retiring to Paris, he directed his ever-growing Argentine affairs from an inconspicuous office on Boulevard St. Germain. When he died in Monte Carlo at 75, he left four sons to increase the family fortune. Two of them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted in Buenos Aires by the snooty Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas, they blossomed ornately in prewar Paris, where their salons were famous for social glitter...