Word: gerardo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Formula. Politics he heard about mostly from his sons. Guillermo, 22 and just back from a year's compulsory military service, was an enthusiastic Peronista. Gerardo, 18, studying at the university to become a chartered accountant, because Pedro had determined that one of his sons should have the benefit of a good education, was anti-Perón, as most university students. The brothers squabbled endlessly over Perón's foreign projects, domestic reforms...
Built by ex-Dictator General Gerardo Machado, Cuba's Huey Long, the $20 million Capitolio has been called a monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...made a hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then 32, astounded the Western Hemisphere by taking over the Army and the Government...
...Charles C. Colby 3d, Watertown, Watertown High School; John J. Delaney Jr., Arlington, Arlington High School; Michael J. DeLeo, Everett, Everett Senior High School; Arthur J. Driscoll Jr., Buzzards Bay, Roxbury Latin School; Thaddeus J. Dziura, Lowell, Lowell High School; Charles M. Finbury, Haverhill, Public Latin School, Boston; Alexander Gerardo, Holyoke, Holyoke High School; Ronald O. Germain, Boston, Lawrence High School; Frederick E. Grimes, Swampscott, Swampscott High School; Frederick A. Hagar, Marshfield Hills Marshfield High School; Breed Hall North Pembroke, Pembroke High School; Frank T. Innes, Hyde Park, English High School, Boston...
Cuba last week had its first revolution in seven years. Compared with the butcheries that clotted up the regimes of Gerardo ("Tyrant") Machado and preceding Cuban presidents, it was as genteel as a dowager's hiccup...