Word: juan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President was able to land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored, discussed U. S. aid to help Panama build roads (as a Canal defense measure), lunched with Governor Clarence Ridley of the Canal Zone...
...purposes to 500 acres. Crusty Mr. Ickes well knew that few of Puerto Rico's sugar companies own less than 500 acres. He demanded that island authorities enforce this law. Last week the first attempt to enforce it landed in Puerto Rico's Supreme Court at San Juan...
...Paraffin tests last week determined that 13 Nationalistas fired the fusillade-65 to 80 shots-which slew two persons, wounded 32, at last fortnight's Occupation Day in Ponce. Detective Juan Colon shielded Governor Winship's body with his own, but one bullet ripped the Governor's trouser leg. For once U. S. colonial administration rose to the British standard: The Governor snorted: "What damn poor shots they...
Extravagant admirers of Britain's skittish Eric Linklater have not hesitated to compare him to Aristophanes. Author Linklater's picaresque, satirical novels (Juan in America, Magnus Merriman et al.) were full of bawdy humor and a blithe unconcern for English notions of propriety. But last week, when he published a new-fashioned novelist's version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, critics concluded that the Scot was no match for the Greek on his own ground...
...brilliant, literary President Manuel Azana, statesman-reformer, there has been the anonymous life of a figurehead. This week he emerged to make a radio address. For more than a year, a Socialist physician, Dr. Juan Negrin, educated in Germany, a fluent linguist, frequenter of Madrid's swankiest cafés, has ruled Leftist Spain, his decrees being subject to periodic scrutiny by an obedient, peripatetic Cortes...