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...THIEVES?Manuel Komroff? Coward-McCann...
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...
...Senor Palma "wishing the Acting President success in his office," thus giving him diplomatic recognition. The only trouble was that Acting President Palma was not at all acceptable to the Guatemalan Army and a considerable section of the populace. Day after his recognition by the U. S., a General Manuel Orellana rushed with troops out of Fort Matamoras where he was commandant, booted out Acting President Palma, took the office himself. A half-hour's gun play left 57 persons killed or wounded. During the ruction somebody killed Gen eral Mauro de Leon, who as No. 1 Designate, should...
Died. Don Manuel de Yriarte, social adviser to Governor-General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines and to previous governors since William Howard Taft (1901-1904); of apoplexy while directing the rigodon de honor, stately, traditional dance which he always led at the opening of governmental receptions...
...service and occasionally hold a confidential little tete-a-tete with the more forlorn workers under him. If Tony smashes his thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about the wife and kiddies and thus get his mind off the injured member, or if Manuel should inadvertently fall asleep between rest periods the foreman should not try to awaken him but should sit down and listen sympathetically to his snoring. The only difficulty in this theory would seem to be in discovering that rara avis The Sympathetic Foreman...