Word: jes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Argentine official: "Impossible. All children born in Argentina must be named for saints. Here is the list." It included Francisco, Domingo, Lorenzo, Pedro, MarÍa, Jesúus, Guillermo, etc., but no Glen or Franklin...
...Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
...urge to celebrate the anniversary (July 25) of the landing of U.S. troops on their island in 1898. Then Harry Truman gave them reason. On that day he chose a native Puerto Rican as their governor, the first to hold the post. He was burly 49-year-old Jesús Toribio Piñero, since 1944 Puerto Rico's elected Resident Commissioner in Washington...
...choice of William Henry Hastie to be Governor of the Virgin Islands, the President had sent a Negro to govern a predominantly Negro population. In picking Jesús Piñero, he said that he was giving an earnest of the U.S. desire for U.S. colonials to have a greater voice in their government...
...aware of the anniversary, Harry Truman did not mention it. But he had plenty of good reasons for his choice. U.S.-trained (University of Pennsylvania), Jesús Piñero had been an able spokesman of Puerto Rico's problems. He was a popular man at home. He was a close friend of the island's most powerful politician, Luis Muñoz Marin; with him Piñero had founded the now dominant Popular Democratic Party in 1938. The Insular Legislature had recommended his appointment...