Word: galindez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simmering mystery over the Manhattan disappearance of Jesús de Galindez, scholar, author and bitter enemy of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, boiled up suddenly last week and scalded the political future of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who gets $30,000 a year for representing Dictator Trujillo in New York...
...Manhattan on the night of March 12 Jesus de Galindez wound up his lecture in Hispanic-American civilization at Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, dismissed the students, started down a dark walk toward the subway station at Broadway and 116th Street and vanished. This week, despite a continuing search by New York detectives and a lookout by the cops of 13 states, Galindez was still missing...
...Lawyer Galindez, a sociable Basque bachelor of 40, fought Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and paid the price of defeat in exile, first to France, then, in 1939, to the Dominican Republic. There he took legal advisory and teaching jobs with the government of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. As he watched the strongman's methods, his fear and anger grew. By 1946 he was deep in anti-Trujillo underground activity and New York friends got him a visa to come to the U.S. By then a fascination with Trujillo's iron personality and Trujillo's absolute...
...book-cluttered apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, Galindez patiently assembled all the known facts about Generalissimo Trujillo. Most of the research went toward a critical, 750-page dissertation on Trujillo submitted for a Ph.D. degree at Columbia. Galindez also worked on a scathing novel about the strongman, and wrote many an attack on Trujillo in magazine articles and pamphlets published in the U.S. and Mexico...
...Inter-American Press Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and ten other organizations asked Attorney General Herbert Brownell for an all-out FBI investigation of Galindez' disappearance...