Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matanzas, bombs shattered furniture in the homes of Senators Horacio Diaz Pardo and Manuel Vera Vedura. Six conspirators were arrested...
...Mayor Gomez's sister, Detective Delgado noticed (and it was odd that President Machado had not noticed the ominous fact long ago), is the wife of Major Manuel Espinosa, for five and a half years aide-de-camp to the President, and commander of the palace guards. Lightning-like, the deductive flash of suspicion leaped from the plumbing plans in the Municipal Archives through the ex-Mayor, his sister and the President's aide to the soldier and the bomb. Confronted by Cuba's Philo Vance with these crushing suspicions, the soldier broke down utterly...
...THIEVES?Manuel Komroff? Coward-McCann...
Though history has told nothing more of them than how they died, the world's most famed thieves are those two who were crucified with Christ. Manuel Komroff makes them the heroes of his story, ennobles them into Jewish patriots who died for their country...
This could best be done by forcing the successful revolutionist, General Manuel Orellana, to resign as president of Guatemala. The joke of the whole business was of course not that Revolutionist Orellana had seized the presidency but that he had seized it from one Baudilio Palma who obtained it the week before from original President Lazaro Chacon. The joke which Washington wanted uncracked was that Washington had recognized the second of Guatemala's three successive presidents...