Word: guatemala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christianity, celebrated its 2,600th anniversary with plans for its aggrandizement (see p. 38). The U. S. Marines, twitching at their triggers as always, were 165 years old. King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy was 69 and disappointed at the news from Greece (see p. 24). President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala was 62 and successful (see p. 37). In Moscow, Russia celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its Revolution with a military demonstration and professions of peace, while in Washington tiny Ambassador Constantine Alexandrovich Oumansky served caviar to U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and to Allied and Axis diplomats...
...four-in-the-morning stillness of the Palace grounds at Guatemala City was broken one day last week by the blasts of a military band playing Happy Birthday To You. Two hours later, at 6 a.m., the forts of San José and Matamoros sounded off with a 21-gun salute. Early the people arose, dressed themselves in their best, and hurried to the patios and salas of the Palace, where they saw floral compositions representing harps, marimbas, Guatemala's shield, books, a motorcycle, a locomotive, a train. At the end of a long, polished-mahogany chamber they were...
...search of the much-touted, often-postponed Mexican Revolution of 1940, correspondents last week began painfully trekking down to Chiapas, the primitive, mountainous State adjoining Guatemala. Previous Almazan revolutions have had substance chiefly in reports telephoned to Mexico City, presumably by nerve-warring Almazanistas. But this time President Lazaro Cardenas refused to accept assurances from the Governor of Chiapas, General Antonio Rios Zertuche, that the Governor had no knowledge of an up rising. He was ordered by the President to leave Chiapas at once and take over as Governor of Sonora, at the extreme opposite end of Mexico, adjoining Arizona...
South of Mexico is "the most powerful military establishment in Central America" (excluding Mexico): Guatemala's Army of 5,967, plus a tiny, French-trained Air Force. President Jorge Ubico has said he could put 70,000 men in the field in a pinch. Below Guatemala is El Salvador with a volunteer professional Army of 1,855, an eight-plane Air Force. Honduras has an Army of about 2,000, an Air Force of 19 planes, with an aviation school under...
First white man to see, accurately describe a quetzal was Robert Owen of England in 1840. Plume-hunters nearly exterminated the birds, which are now protected by the Guatemalan Government. The first live, baby quetzals were taken out of Guatemala by Explorer von Hagen three years ago. Three, all of which have since died, went to The Bronx Zoo. Six went to London. When last heard from two of these were still living. Chicago also acquired two young quetzals last...