Word: junta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government." But he gave no assurance that Peru would continue the experiment in democratic government begun under Bustamante. (Said Bustamante in his farewell: "Democracy is like the sun; its eclipses are never permanent.") "Party politics," cried Odria, "poison the hearts of the people and sicken their minds." The military junta he had set up would deal severely with "outrages . . . perpetrated in the name of democracy and freedom." That pointed to ruthless prosecution of the jailed APRA leaders and a redoubled hunt for those still at large, notably Aprista Chief Haya de la Torre...
...SALVADOR'S FUSTY PRESIDENT Salvador Castaneda Castro got an invitation to visit his neighbor-once-removed, Costa Rica's Junta President José Figueres...
...After leading the anti-government forces to victory in Costa Rica's recent civil war, José Figueres became head of the ruling Junta, in effect, the nation's chief executive. His pretty brunette wife is the former Henrietta Boggs of Birmingham...
Those projects were to smash three dictators: Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Honduras' Dictator Tiburcio Carías. The battle-hardened exiles in Costa Rica had formed a "junta for the liberation of the Caribbean." Said bald old Dominican Juan Rodriguez Garcia, who had sunk $400,000 in last summer's abortive plot against Trujillo: "The free people of the Caribbean are uniting against despots. The liberation of the Caribbean is our object...
...send him to college in return for a promise to become a lawyer. At the university in Berkeley he was a steady but not brilliant student (he flunked second year Greek), was too wild to pitch on the baseball team, became a gregarious member of a club named La Junta (later Sigma Phi). After law school and three years of private practice in Oakland, he jumped into World War I as an infantry private at Camp Lewis, Wash. He was sent to the Central Infantry Officers' Training Camp at Waco, Tex., was a first lieutenant when the armistice...