Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong-man Morinigo, who grabbed authority Sept. 7, 1940, after the airplane-crash death of President Jose Felix Estigarribia, made his job "legal" last February in an election in which he was the only candidate. Now there were three grand balls, many banquets and luncheons, parades and a sports show to assure the people that their choice was not unduly limited...
...Supremo, Jose Caspar Rodriguez Francia, was Dictator of Paraguay for a quarter-century (1814-40). His policy of strict isolationism prevented Paraguay's incorporation into Argentina or Brazil...
...Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house and dared authorities to come...
...lieutenant, Palito was sent to learn with Kaiser Wilhelm's 5th Hussars. Well trained, Lieut. Ramirez returned home, devoted himself to rising via captain and colonel to general and Minister of War. In 1930 he made a name for himself in the last generals' revolt, that of Jose Uriburu, who ousted, unconstitutionally, President Hipolito Irigoyen. As a reward, he became military attache in Rome...
Lawrence Charles Antonellis, Jr., (Mathematics and Economics), Edwin Turner Baker (History and Literature), Gilbert Corwin (Geological Sciences), Edward William Garrison (Engineering Sciences), Norman Kingsley Mailer, William Artyn Main (Economics), Alan Lee Reade (Mathematics), Samuel Boice Richardson, Jose Nicasio Rodrigues Feo (History and Literature), John Phillip Schafer (Biology), Robert Boone Stewart, Rolland Dinwiddie Thompson (Architectural Sciences...