Word: grana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riding high in cabinet and Congress. Aprista denials were none too convincing; soon the party was on the run before the rightist barrage. Last October APRA was outlawed. Three weeks later, General Manuel Odria seized the government, ordered the immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last fortnight, it was clear at once that the whole Aprista party-including Haya-was really on trial for Grana's death. "Flushed by a dead man!" cried a Peruvian last week on hearing that Haya had turned up at the Embassy...
...impending elections to the Constituent Assembly, all other political groups had combined against them. Moreover, they were almost certain to be convicted of direct connection with the murder of La Prensa's right-wing Publisher Francisco Graña, shot down in front of his office. The Grana murder had been a political cause...
...Peru's anti-Apra press ever printed anything about Haya, this last injunction would have been news. Apra had often used gangster methods in politics; it had been blamed for the still unsolved murder last January of Rightist Editor Francisco Grana (TIME, Jan. 20). Perhaps now Peru's dominant party was going to restrain itself. At least the Jefe had given the word...
...just after 7 in the evening. Francisco ("Panchito") Grana Garland, 45, boss of Lima's ultraconservative La Prensa, manager of a big pharmaceutical business, had had a long day at the office. "Good night, sonny," he said to the porter, and headed toward his car. A moment later six shots crackled in the street. The porter got out in time to see a sedan turn the corner. Grana lay mortally wounded at the wheel...
...murder of Editor Grana, scion of one of Lima's 60 reigning families and bitter editorial enemy of the dominant Apra Party, touched off the biggest political crisis since the Apristas came to power two years...