Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleased too was the swart, chunky gentleman for whom this swankest military State reception in Washington history had been staged by Franklin Roosevelt, He was only General Anastasio Somoza, President of little Nicaragua (pop. 1,133,000), but this show for him was in all details precisely the reception planned for King George & Queen Elizabeth of mighty Great Britain next month. Fact that it was a dress rehearsal for that occasion did not diminish the fact that it came first, that it was as handsome a performance as any Latin-American heart could desire, that it was a gesture intended...
...Roosevelt, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, the Cabinet (with only two absent), Chief Justice Hughes all followed Franklin Roosevelt in handshaking General Somoza & wife at the station. The artillery banged a 21-gun salute. With 15 tanks in front, 15 behind, the Presidential car led a parade up to the Capitol, around its plaza, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Franklin Roosevelt had assured the presence of throngs by having all Federal employes excused from work from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m. Military strictness prevailed. Officers wore their medals & decorations. The only two pressmen (one reporter, one cameraman) permitted...
...constitutional style, then resigned, rewrote the constitution, got re-elected in new style for an eight-year term. Thus neatly sidestepped were all objections from such good neighbors as the U. S. and the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza was brought about just as politely as, for example, that of General Jorge Ubico in Guatemala...
...Dictator Somoza discussed with Franklin Roosevelt, whose guests* he and Señora Somoza were their first night in Washington, his new constitution (now formally blessed by the U. S.), the canal Nicaragua wants the U. S. to pay for across her.t and hemisphere solidarity. On the latter subject. General Somoza is handsomely outspoken. Says he: "I consider every Nicaraguan aviator and soldier as a potential fighting man for the United States...
Later Anastasio Somoza addressed Congress, blandly asked it to authorize construction of his canal as a continental defense measure. General Somoza found Congress in a grumpier mood than...