Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Cuba's aristocratic House of Mendoza hovered last week scandal and disgrace. Mendoza menfolk are among Cuba's leading lawyers. They represent American Sugar Refining, Electric Bond & Share. Last month socialite Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza became the first woman ever arraigned before a Cuban court martial. She, her son Dr. Igacio Mendoza and a nephew, were charged with conspiracy to assassinate on June 10, by means of a 6-lb. dynamite bomb, General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of Cuba...
Socialites who packed the courtroom waved handkerchief encouragement to Senora de la Torre Mendoza. Her military judges avoided her flashing gaze...
...almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people be gay. Was not that Liberal leader and troublemaker, Commandante Ildefonso Mendoza, under arrest? Above all, was not Ecuador the only country in all South America still on the gold standard, with a free market for foreign exchange...
...Commandante Mendoza was active even under restraint. Out in the sun-baked streets his followers collected, staged an election, proclaimed their own "Queen of the People." About her gathered a motley court. They proceeded toward the centre of the city where Queen Baquerizo, surrounded by ladies in waiting, was riding in state in a gaudy float. Up to the float they pushed crying: "Down with the Aristocrats! Viva Mendoza!" Ladies of the court were pushed into the street, suffering bruises. Senorita Rosa had her right eye blackened before the float was delivered to the Queen of the People. Through...
...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...