Word: jefe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jefe, just back from a flying trip to the U.S., wanted to tell about his trip to New York City and especially of his visit with Albert Einstein at Princeton...
Avocado Politics. Apra was not part of the government it fought so ferociously to uphold. With more seats in Congress than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
Died. General Plutarco Elias Calles, 68, Mexico's President from 1924 to 1928 and El Jefe (the boss) for many years before & after; after a gall-bladder operation; in Mexico City. The onetime schoolteacher and storekeeper gained prominence in the 1911 revolution against Porfirio Diaz, thereafter dominated Mexican politics until banished in 1936 by Lazaro Cárdenas, his former protege. Calles improved education and labor laws, inveighed loudly against one-man rule yet practiced it, continually flailed the Catholic Church, was labeled "hard but just" by U.S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow...
Minister of Finance: Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, 36, slender, professorial, head and brains of MNR, whose members call him "el jefe" (the boss...
During the ceremony, the jefe received 35 grizzled, barefooted veterans of the war of 1870 on the Palace balcony. Their leader, perky Sergeant Major Victoriano Martinez, shouted patriotic praise at Morinigo, called him the new Supremo* who would lead Paraguay back to glory...