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Lawyer Galindez, a sociable Basque bachelor of 40, fought Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and paid the price of defeat in exile, first to France, then, in 1939, to the Dominican Republic. There he took legal advisory and teaching jobs with the government of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. As...
"Our peerless leader has disclosed that the re-establishment of the office of Vice President is being considered," reported El Caribe, newspaper mouthpiece of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo, Ambassador Extraordinary, Benefactor, etc., etc.-and for the past 24 years its Dictator. It was electrifying news...
In all the Era of Trujillo as Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo calls his 24-year tyranny over the Dominican Republic, no chum has been closer, no tool more useful than Secretary of State Without Portfolio Anselmo Paulino Alvarez. Whenever islanders talk of the terroristic carro de la muerte (death car...
President Stenio Vincent, a poet-nationalist elected on an oust-the-U.S. platform when the Marines supervised an honest election in 1930, picked Lieut. Magloire for his aide-de-camp. But Vincent's government stumbled in 1937, when the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, in...
Not since the days when Red Grange was roaming the gridirons has ex-Sports-writer Westbrook Pegler found much to admire in men on the public stage. But last week Hearst Columnist Pegler, on a trip to the Dominican Republic (pop. 2,200,000), found a new hero: Dictator Rafael...