Word: gustavo
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Santa Isabel on the Island of Fernando Po is the Guinean Capital. Starting out with his secretary and a small suite. Governor General Don Gustavo de Sostoa, a popular veteran of the Spanish colonial service in Morocco, had been inspecting small islands for days. He came at last to Annobon, wrung the trusty Sergeant's hand, sat down to a festive, tropical dinner and prepared to endure the native dance. Shrill native pipes squealed, drums throbbed. Black men began to dance and no one noticed white Sergeant Castilla...
...ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled name recalling both the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, and Father Miguel Hidalgo, a priest active in the struggle for independence from Spain) became the suburb Gustavo Madero. Assassinated in 1913, Gustavo Madero was a brother of famed Mexican President Francisco Madero, also assassinated...
...staged by Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez, commander of the troops which were aquatically held up fortnight ago. To the Naval Junta he gave his word that, if allowed to land his men, he would march them straight to barracks...
Satisfactory terms having been arranged, Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez announced that one Col. David Samanez Ocampo, "President of the Southern Junta," would proceed from Arequipa to Lima and assume the office of President of Peru (the fourth within six months, the third within a week...
...arrears due, permit the Mexican National to be reorganized as a going concern instead of placing it in the hands of a receiver, and finally undertake to consolidate the entire Mexican indebtedness in the form of a new 5% loan. No sooner was this agreement reached than one Gustavo Gallapin, a Swiss resident of New York who owns 200 Mexican bonds, filed suit for injunction against the bankers' plan-his attorney being Candidate Alexander Simpson, who will oppose Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow for the New Jersey senatorship. Denying vociferously that his purpose was political mudslinging, Lawyer Simpson introduced Ambassador...