Word: garcias
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...picturesque details, The Spanish Main nevertheless contains several compact narratives that readers are likely to find unfamiliar. One of these deals with the desperate race to find the Inca Empire, whose fame had spread through South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more support...
...third day the two presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted; an officer slashed the assassin over the head with a sabre. President Terra, followed by his guests, walked pleasantly...
...cigar factories instead. Today by reason of its proximity to the source of tobacco supply in Cuba, Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic events in the cigar industry of the last decade...
...protective committee of longs, smarting from their scolding, howled for a more drastic penalty from the shorts. Said its Chairman Carlos G. Garcia: "This ruling is extremely unfair. It shows the rankest kind of favoritism on the part of the Exchange officials. It shows extreme partiality toward a group of professional traders, and convinces us that the public has no chance on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange...
...Francisco old Col. Rowan, now retired, heard of the search, declared: "The message is not lost because there was no message to lose; I carried it in my head." Protested General Garcia Velez: "But certainly there was a written message. I remember it distinctly." Finally the War Department located Col. Rowan's report on the mission, announced that it felt sure that there had been no written message to Garcia...