Word: jeronimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent rash of big ideas among heads of Central American states (see below) last week broke out in Nicaragua. Jeronimo Ramirez Brown, Minister of the Interior, announced that employers will be fined if they fail to give employes at least two hours for lunch or fail to provide chairs on which idle employes...
...Jeronimo, young European of mixed blood, has fled to African fevers as an antidote for the fever of Europe. His troubles had come to a figurehead in a famous actress, but there was more to it than that: he was suffering from "the curse which every Occidental must bear." The province of East Africa to which he goes is,the property of a company which exploits, in true conquistador style, the huge, rich, deadly land and its enslaved natives. The few European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years...
...Jeronimo journeyed on into the interior "it seemed as though everything here was ambiguous, merely a substitute for something else, but only in the sense in which things are substitutes for their souls, events for their meaning. . . ." Berna, fey-wise daughter of a drunken planter, half fell in love with him, but he was looking for something else. At Riquem's plantation Jeronimo spent a tense evening: his host's white wife, who had run off into the bush with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited...
Next the Assembly will tackle charges of high treason against fugitive King Alfonso XIII (he never abdicated) which were drafted last week by the Government Responsibility Commission. "If Alfonso does not return from France to face these charges," said Socialist Commissioner Jeronimo Bujeda, "we are prepared to declare him a fugitive from Justice. This Commission demands real prosecution and no farces...