Word: menendez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago Colonel Aguirre and his officers muscled out Provisional President Andres Ignacio Menendez, under whom the 1,704,497 Salvadorans had enjoyed five months of wildly free speech and press. They had reinstated the country's Constitution of 1886, which acknowledges the right to insurrection. Colonel Aguirre suspended the Constitution, proceeded to "maintain order." Hundreds were jailed. With a friendly word toward neighboring Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras, Colonel Aguirre raided the headquarters of the Honduran revolutionaries in San Salvador's Nuevo Mundo Hotel. The arresting officers were so rough with the Honduran leaders they caught that...
Author (James) Branch Cabell of Virginia spent several pleasant winters in St. Augustine, Fla., where he got interested in the character of Pedro Menendez de Aviles, who founded the town (oldest continuous white settlement in the U.S.) in 1565. Cabell read in a guidebook that the headboard of Menendez' coffin was in the City Hall...
...Cabell also set about composing an urbane and bloody tale of Menendez' time, compact of history, folklore and imagination...
...first gentleman" of The First Gentleman of America is not Menendez but Nemattanon, Virginia Indian chief. Nemattanon learned the ways of the Spanish hidalgos, but returned to Virginia to protect his tribe from plundering, torture and slavery which the Spanish high-mindedly practiced. Despite their irreconcilable views, there was a grudging affection and respect between Menendez and Nemattanon, and they managed with some effort to avoid killing each other...