Word: maximiliano
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...swarmed into San Salvador one day last week to celebrate Independence Day, 116th anniversary of the little nation's liberation from Spain. Crowning the day's ceremonies was the bestowal by the Chamber of Deputies on the curly head of El Salvador's Dictator, President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the high-sounding title, "Benefactor of the Nation...
...Salvador's dictator, General Maximiliano H. Martinez, made haste to recognize the Fascist Government of General Franco in Spain as early as last November. He has cultivated trade with Germany. Gentlemen who cease to find the membership of their club congenial are apt to run behind on dues...
From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo of Popayan, Colombia, a Chicago gem syndicate bought for an unrevealed sum the foot-high emerald crown of Our Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...
...nominating candidates for the House of Representatives, Menocal's men seemed to have pocketed the House. Prime election after-problem : to what extent had Batista's Army, which searched voters for weapons, stuffed the ballot boxes? An oblique answer by Cuba's Secretary of the Interior Maximiliano Smith: "The elections have been the most honest ever held in Cuba. The Army and the police were not only impartial, but also exceedingly gentlemanly...
...sympathized with the lonely plight of owl-eyed Emperor Henry was swart little President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, a nation about as large as Maryland. President Martinez, a vegetarian, a teetotaller and an authority on agricultural reform, had been in office more than two years before the U. S. recognized him, knew only too well the penalties of nonrecognition. On Jan. 26 of this year, President Roosevelt was ready to admit the existence of President Martinez. Thirty-six days later President Martinez was ready to admit privily the existence of Emperor Kang Teh. But he apparently...