Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March n issue of your estimable publication appears a brief reference to the death of Mr. Leon Cortes Castro, in which it is stated that this illustrious ex-President of my country was a man of fascist tendencies. Nothing could be farther from the truth...
...Leon Cortes never made any attempts against continental security. As the New York Times said on March 4 of this year, he included in his inaugural address the idea launched by the then President Franklin Roosevelt for the holding of an inter-American peace conference. He worked for the Good Neighbor Policy initiated by the North American President...
...confess to you that all of our Presidents have made errors in the discharge of their duties-who doesn't?-but I wish to state that the foreign policy of all of them has been above reproach. Leon Cortes, in the international field, was a true democrat, as befits a President of Costa Rica...
...Leon Cortes Castro has fought totalitarianism bitterly. Overstrain fighting such organizations killed...
...with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...