Word: moraes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sandbagged capital of San José, a Communist named Manuel Mora was the strong man last week. That was about the most significant result of four weeks of civil war in Costa Rica...
...their southern mountains and beat off clumsy government attacks. In San José, leftist President Teodoro Picado and ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia, the men who had provoked the war by getting Ulate's election annulled as fraudulent, had found they could not control Comrade Mora; they had wooed him too long and too earnestly. Their police and troops, weakened by losses in the field, were nothing compared to his 1,500 well-disciplined shock troops...
...Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in the capital. Campesinos and other "volunteers" were shipped off to fight the Ulatistas...
...diplomatically ungodly hour of 8 a.m. the unrecognized Argentine Minister in Washington, Rodolfo Garcia Arias, called at the Chilean Chancellory. The sleepy mayordomo let him in, telephoned Ambassador Marcial Mora at his home. The Ambassador was shaving, but he hurried downtown without breakfast, to receive with reluctant hands a diplomatic hot potato: a memorandum from the Argentine Government for delivery to the Government of the U.S. It announced that Argentina had asked the Pan American Union to call a full-dress conference of Foreign Ministers to consider the Argentine case...
Nevertheless, the memorandum was a bombshell. The U.S. State Department dove nimbly into its foxhole, disclaiming formal knowledge of the Argentine request. This was formally true, for Ambassador Mora was consulting his Government before delivering the memorandum...