Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half an hour later assassins broke into the home of Dr. Miguel Angel Aguiar, who was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful anti-Machado revolution (TIME, Aug. 31. 1931) and shot him four times. The next day he died. The Government then proceeded with the burial of Speaker of the Senate Dr. Vazquez Bello. But before the funeral, detectives thoughtfully inspected Colon Cemetery where the interment was to have taken place. They found not one but 23 separate bombs planted near the spot marked for Dr. Vazquez Bello's grave, with enough dynamite to blow up the entire...
...Isle of Paradise (Independent). In the last year or two, a great deal has been heard about Bali, the Dutch East Indian island whose natives live like Utopians and raise three crops of rice a year. Reporter Hickman Powell wrote a book, The Last Paradise, about Bali; Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias last year exhibited his Balinese paintings; Balinese musicians astonished Paris two years ago. The Isle of Paradise, first feature-length cinema on the subject, will multiply the already large number of people who long to go to Bali. It shows a Balinese day from sunrise to sunset. There is nothing...
Keystone man in the Machado regime was Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of Cuba's Secret Police, foiler of numberless plots against the President. As Captain Calvo rode down the broad Malecon with two Havana policemen one day last week, a submachine gun suddenly began to spat-spat. The two policemen were instantly killed. Captain Calvo was rushed to a hos pital, died with 36 slugs in his body. The submachine gunners escaped unidentified...
...Upon Don Miguel Cruchaga, Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., strolling to his Embassy in a white linen suit, came Mrs- Fred Albert Britten, wife of the Congressman. Chortled she: "Why, Mr. Ambassador, you look like a glass of milk...
...MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). From John Dos Passos-or Miguel de Cervantes-or from the blue. Author Bromfield takes his method of telling his latest tale. As the stream of narrative encounters the leading characters, the stream is diverted until the story of each character is told. Though some characters do their womanly best to quiet the stream, the modernistic hero always breaks it into ripples, rapids, finally a plunging waterfall. Pierre Radier is the love child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise...