Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vaclav Eduard Benes '50, nephew of President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, offered a cine yesterday as to the whereabouts of his uncle...
...Homeland. Betancourt got a quick answer. Roman y Reyes (whose nephew, Dictator Anastasio Somoza, really runs Nicaragua) soon cabled back that the planes had been confiscated, the Venezuelans arrested. Said he: "These planes will not leave Nicaraguan territory to attack the noble homeland of Bolivar...
...Managua's sun-baked plaza, cadets from the military academy paraded one day last week in spotless white uniforms. Bands tooted the national anthem and the drums beat out a salute as President Victor Roman y Reyes and his boss and nephew, General Anastasio Somoza, drove down from their hilltop palaces in bulletproof sedans...
...National Palace, Nicaragua's Constituent Assembly awaited them with the product of five months' labor-a new constitution. President Roman solemnly accepted it, then watched nephew Anastasio sworn in as a lifetime Senator, under a tailor-made constitutional provision that awards such honor to all ex-Presidents...
Every afternoon, the members emerge from their separate dens for tea and talk. Among them: Albert Einstein, crack Mathematician Oswald Veblen (nephew of famed Economist Thorstein Veblen) and the institute's new boss, Physicist J. Robert ("Oppy") Oppenheimer...