Word: monteros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
...Topaze labeled President Juan Esteban Montero "One-Step" (roughly the way Juan Esteban sounds in Spanish when correctly pronounced). The nickname stuck, the Montero dignity was ruined. He was ultimately ousted. The idea was much the same as if President Roosevelt became known as "Frankly Dull...
...during the last Presidency of Arturo Alessandri, known as "The Lion," Topaze printed a cartoon showing a decrepit, mangy old lion being tamed by Alessandri's most despised political rival. Said Délano: "Who ever heard of referring to a President as a lion?" Alessandri, like Montero, became a laughingstock...
...Adolfo Montero's Chiriguano Indians, four chocolate-brown women bathing in a pool overhung by deep green palm trees...