Word: nestor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denton, John Bousing, Jr. '50 (Manager), German, David Nestor '51, Hubbell, Irawtont Cox '48. Mastson, Robert Ira '50, Mee, Herbert Martin, Jr. Ed, O'Keefee, Richard Michael '49, Nawn, Bugh, Jr. '51, Richenbacker, Williams Frost '49 (Captain), Seager, Samuel Nathan...
Just two mornings before July 4, the first anniversary of Philippine independence, the citizens of Calapan, capital of Mindoro province, awoke to find their town invaded and occupied by local revolutionists. Led by Nestor Romero, a 31-year-old Bataan veteran, 31 convicts broke out of the provincial stockade, disarmed their guards and a platoon of sleeping military police, and took over the town. They captured the mayor, the governor of the province, and Paul Leuterio, majority leader of the Philippine House of Representatives. After a 15-hour reign of terror, MP reinforcements routed the rebels, killed Romero...
This week Bolivia had a civilian government. A junta headed by Supreme Court dean Nestor Guillen took over provisionally. The vicious military clique that had given Bolivia its fascist label faded, momentarily at least, into the background...
...Bolivian regime of Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel last week discovered and scotched a plot to overthrow it. Warned in the nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
Baruch was a speculator and a creative investor who amassed enormous wealth outside of industry, who went to help his Government in time of need, and has made a later career as an adviser to five Presidents, an economic Nestor, a sage of war planning. Henderson was a research-foundation economist who has refused repeated offers to turn an honest business dollar, who has always felt his Government needed him, and has proved it. Both have a startling ability to deduce facts from figures, the event from the process. Each likes and respects the other...