Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would take a near mad-man to issue the statement that Albizu did in reference to the House shooting. He called it an act of "sublime heroism," and added that Lolita Lebron and two nationalist "gentlemen of the race who accompanied her . . . have served notice on the United States engorged with its atomic bombs, that duty obliges it to respect independance of all nations; to respect the independance of Puerto Rico...
Albizu lives today a quarter of a mile from La Fortaleza, suspiciously forcing his sides to transact their business with him through a peephole in his apartment door. His name is still the rally word for Island and mainland nationalist fanatics. Lolita Lebron went to great pains to include the following note in her purse which was made public when she was arrested in the gallery of the House...
...Died. Lolita Sheldon Armour, 83, wealthy widow of Meat Packer J. Ogden Armour (son of Packing House Founder P. D. Armour); in Lake Forest, Ill. A queen of Chicago society through World War I, she fell on hard times as the collapse of the top-heavy meat market at war's end began melting away her husband's $150 million Armour-plated fortune. When he died in 1927, she inherited debts that ate up her personal fortune, forced her to move from sumptuous 846-acre "Mellody Farm" (now the site of Lake Forest Academy) to a modest Chicago...