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Word: galvez (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Juan Manuel Galvez, onetime United Fruit lawyer, does not want to lose the labor vote for his candidate in next October's presidential election. Last week, therefore, he privately asked United Fruit to negotiate even before the strikers go back to work, and to start talking turkey on higher wages, paid vacations, double overtime pay. The company agreed. "Viva Gálvez!" cried the strikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: General Strike | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Season. In Lima, Peru, Alberto Galvez Reyna explained to police why he took a potshot at friends who sang a birthday serenade beneath his window: "It was not my birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Keeping $65,000 worth of the company's $100,000 capital stock for himself as compensation for the three planes, he judiciously sold the rest to influential Honduran politicos. Though Silverthorne denies it, many Hondurans. believe that President Juan Manuel Galvez's son Roberto got a piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Flying Wildcatter | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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