Word: m
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over...
Trailing far behind were Chief Justice Martin Travieso, whose platform called for statehood, and Dr. Francisco M. Susoni, who had plumped for immediate independence of the U.S. Though virtually all Puerto Ricans wanted one or the other of these things, most had been convinced that Muñoz' moderate program of industrialization and economic development was a surer way of getting them...
...Pacific, and grinned. "Arévalo set out to bomb me last spring. Hell, I didn't even move from my house. The trouble with a stunt like that is that the plotter doesn't think it can be turned against him. Right now I'm going to buy the same A20 that Arévalo was going to use against me. I take these boys' toys away from them whenever I can." Tacho's belly shook with laughter as he flopped back into the hammock...
...want to treat everybody good," says Tacho, wide-eyed. "I once told F.D.R. about democracy in Central America. Democracy down here is like a baby-and nobody gives a baby everything to eat right away. I'm giving 'em liberty-but in my style. If you give a baby a hot tamale, you'll kill...
...think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...