Word: laredos
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...16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient for a quorum. Unread on the lectern was the latest message which Dictator Batista had authorized his hand-picked President Federico Laredo Bru to read...
...back from Camp Columbia to the Capitol, the stand-up was over. Back into the chamber filed 111 of the lower house's 162 members, just enough for a quorum but not enough to let Boss Batista forget that they were aggrieved. What they then heard from President Laredo Bru would have burned the ears of any U. S. Congress...
...Government, thundered Camp Columbia through the mouth of Laredo Bru, was tired of keeping 162 Representatives and 36 Senators at a cost of $4,000,000 a year unless they passed some laws to earn their pay. Since the Senate obeyed the Colonel's orders last December and impeached troublesome President Dr. Miguel Mariano Gómez, both houses had been feeling a new sense of power. They had refrained from legislating to argue over such matters as jobs. Now the Government, reported dutiful Señor Laredo Bru, was going to set things moving again by holding elections...
Sixty-one-year-old Vice President Federico Laredo Bru immediately succeeded to the Presidency...
Already open to traffic for several months, this $20,000,000 road is paved all the way except for one 69-mile gap. To dedicate it, Mexico planned elaborate ceremonies at Nuevo Laredo, including a motorcade of 50 distinguished U. S., Mexican and Guatemalan citizens traveling over the road. Leaving the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week, Vice President Garner journeyed south to Texas to head the U. S. delegation part...