Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have always been a political mercenary!" cried Deputy Oscar Nájera Farfán to Deputy José Garcia Bauer in Guatemala's Constituent Assembly. "At least I am not the night chamber pot of politics!" retorted Garcia Bauer. "O piece of excrement, follow me out of this room!" thundered Nájera Farfán. In the tussle that followed, Nájera Farfán landed a solid right hook to Garcia Bauer's ear before other deputies pulled them apart...
Alarmed by the increasing number of prostitutes passing through the University of Granada's Clinical Hospital, tall, bicycle-riding University Chaplain Father José Garcia two years ago set up a rehabilitation program which proved so successful that he began a nationwide crusade. Father Garcia fired off a circular to government ministers, church leaders and Roman Catholic intellectuals, denouncing legalized prostitution as "the major shame of the nation." The appeal brought only one response, but an important one: in Madrid, Jesuit Father José Maria Llanos, spiritual counselor of the Falange Youth Front, reprinted Father Garcia's circular...
With Father Llanos' backing, Garcia got Primate of Spain Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel behind his campaign. He obtained the cardinal's signature, together with those of the Minister of Justice, the President of the Supreme Court and other top-ranking citizens, to a memorandum on prostitution listing a dozen tragic case histories, including that of a 14-year-old girl sold into white slavery by her mother for 700 pesetas ($17.50). The memorandum was sent to Franco, who replied through channels that he had "taken note" of it. Last week Franco ordered his Minister of Justice...
...Manila Bay last week, a motor launch carrying Philippine Vice President Carlos P. Garcia and Japanese Representative Toshio Urabe chugged out to the sunken hulk of the Japanese freighter Seiwa Maru, one of the rusty eyesores that litter Manila's harbor and menace navigation. Urabe solemnly scattered flowers on the glistening waters in memory of the Japanese soldiers and sailors who went down with their ships, under some of the most destructive bombing by the U.S. Navy in World War II. Then a representative of seven Japanese salvage companies poured out an urnful of sake as an offering...
...censored" where stories had been killed, troops confiscated 15,000 copies. A few days later, censorship was extended to pro-government newspapers as well. Then, last week, the government shut down en tirely the country's leading Liberal paper, El Tiempo* Reason: El Tiempo's Editor Roberto Garcia-Pena had rejected an army order to print, as his own statement, a rebuttal to criticism he had leveled at the government. When foreign newsmen filed stories about the shutdown of the internationally respected El Tiempo, they were told that their dispatches would again be censored...