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Every Thursday at precisely 4 p.m., the leaders of Argentina's wealthiest, most influential-and most clannish-dynasty sit down to weigh their business affairs. The six brothers of the Braun-Menendez family, ranging in age from 55 to 68, meet in a paneled Buenos Aires board room under a portrait of their late father Mauricio. Around the table each in turn stands up to discuss the fortunes and policies of Sociedad Anonima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia. Something like a Hudson's Bay Co. of the Southern Hemisphere, "La Anonima" controls most of the commerce...
...ended last week, the crusade was a clear success. Some 3,000,000 Argentines had flocked to the Buenos Aires cathedral, the number of Communion-receivers increased threefold, and baptisms and marriages numbered in the thousands. "The problem now is to keep up the good work," said Bishop Manuel Menendez. "This...
...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...
...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...