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Sandino and train a native national guard, young Somoza got on so well with the visitors that he was nicknamed "El Yanqui." In 1933 when the Marines left, Anastasio Somoza, then 38 and his country's Foreign Minister, became commandant of the Marine-trained Army. Three years later he used it to run his wife's uncle, President Juan Bautista Sacasa, out of the country. He had himself elected President in due 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...
...never been any kind of judge; until only six weeks ago, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him, he was chairman of SEC. Last week end he cruised with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins on the Potomac. Chief conversational topic: the current state of U. S. business. When Harry Hopkins got back to his desk he expressed what was doubtless the trio's consensus: that to read the latest resolutions of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (seep. 67), "it would seem that apparently, some of them don't believe in this economic system...
...suggestion fell on the deaf ears of already over-burdened department heads, it got a more sympathetic reception from three Californians who agreed to finance a scheme to stimulate extra-curricular reading in American History. Next week the eight History Counsellors and the Faculty committee in charge will meet to evaluate the accomplishments of the program's first year, and to chart a course...
...Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria were about to fight until frontiers began to close. A Greek friend (Joyce is superstitious about Greeks, believes that they bring him luck, that nuns do not) got him permission to leave through Italy. Along the frontier, each time he passed a station, it was dynamited behind...
...annoying War over, Joyce returned to Trieste, but the Italians had got there first. There was constant turmoil while one of Joyce's favorite authors, Commendatore Gabriele D'Annunzio, seized nearby Fiume. So in 1920 Joyce took his family to Paris, where he has lived almost continuously since...