Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first word of a military uprising in his native Arequipa scarcely ruffled President Jose Luis Bustamante's customary calm. Arequipa, after all, was the "Rebel City of the South," a traditional place for sudden risings and uproars. Moreover, Peru's army had just proved its loyalty by crushing the bloody Oct. 3 revolt at Callao (TIME, Oct. 11). The government put out a reassuring communiqué, ordered loyal troops to move against the rebels. But nothing happened...
Into Exile. Within 24 hours, the President had plenty to worry about. The commanders of the strong Lima garrison bluntly refused to oppose Odria, advised Bustamante to resign. Scholarly, law-minded Jose Bustamante parried by suggesting that the whole matter be left to the Supreme Court for decision. The soldiers brushed the idea aside. Bustamante knew then that he was finished, but he sat on stubbornly in his grandiose palace on the Plaza de Armas until four officers came to escort him to the Limatambo airfield and Argentine exile...
...Process. In San Jose, Calif., Ernest J. Gee explained to a superior court judge why he couldn't serve on the jury: he was the defendant...
...Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
When Arnulfo Arias fled Panama for Costa Rica, crying that he had been robbed of the presidency (TIME, Aug. 16), Panama's President Enrique A. Jimenez was worried. He rushed troops to the northern border, and asked Neighbor Jose Figueres not to let Arnulfo use Costa Rica as a base for an armed comeback. Figueres promised. Last week, the Costa Rican government gave Arnulfo 24 hours to get out of the country...