Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Hopson became ill, Associated was controlled by a junta consisting of his old partner J. I. Mange; Hopson's three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing...
...Chosen (Korea) signed away the mineral rights to 600 square miles of the Uhn San district of his sparse North Peng-Yang Province to a brilliant, Columbia City, Ind. promoter named Leigh S. J. Hunt. Three months later Li-Hsi was imprisoned, his wife assassinated by a Japanese-Korean junta. But by 1897 he was back, despotic as ever, under the advanced title of Emperor...
...Condor of the Andes" was the style his countrymen gave this thoughtful, daring son of a German settler and Bolivian mother after he, in his late twenties, explored the wild Zamucos region. He served brilliantly in the Chaco War, afterwards was high in the military junta. When President Sorzano ruled too long by decree, Lieut. Colonel Busch was the Army's choice to supplant him. Last spring, banking on his enormous prestige with Bolivia's tea-colored masses, he declared a totalitarian State which he insisted derived from neither Germany nor Italy (TIME...
...being plagued with just two armies fighting each other, Spain last week had three. Army No. 1, biggest and strongest, was that of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who now holds three-fourths of Spain. Army No. 2 was commanded by famed old General José Miaja, president of the Madrid junta which last week ousted the Loyalist Government of Premier Negrin. Army No. 3 consisted of Communist "rebels" of the old Loyalist Army which revolted against the Miaja junta. The men of Armies No. 2 and 3, fortnight ago buddies in the same trenches, promptly went at each other...
...Generalissimo Franco's Spain it was predicted that the war could now be settled without further fighting. Far from dreading Generalissimo Franco's entry into Madrid, the new junta could almost welcome it. Dr. Negrin had agreed to surrender on the one condition of no reprisals. The new Government would not care much about whether the Negrin Communist and Socialist supporters escaped reprisals. Generalissimo Franco could well afford to promise to save the necks of all others. But whether General Casado would be able to arrange an honorable surrender or be forced into a last-ditch stand...