Word: octavio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OCTAVIO DOMINGUES Rio de Janeiro...
Under heavy U.S. pressure, the Dominicans have produced their own explanation for Murphy's disappearance. They say that another airlines pilot, a Dominican named Octavio de la Maza, "committed suicide" last month in a Ciudad Trujillo jail cell after leaving a note confessing he had knocked Murphy off a cliff into shark-infested waters. When the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ciudad Trujillo implied doubt of their story, by testing the shower pipe from which De la Maza was supposed to have hanged himself, the furious Dominicans complained to Washington...
...days later the U.S. embassy asked Dominican police to investigate Murphy's disappearance. A month went by. Then the U.S. chargé d'affaires was told that Octavio de la Maza, another pilot on the airline, had hanged himself in a prison cell and left a note confessing that he had killed Murphy. Motive for the suicide: "remorse." Motive for the murder: not given...
...officers of the newly chartered Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent waves; President Octavio Reyes Espin-dola, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Cuba and a close associate of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...reception given in his honor by Octavio da Souza Dantas, Miller got talking with portly (240 lbs.) Augusto Frederico Schmidt, poet, businessman and columnist. Between nibbles of crisp shrimp patties, Schmidt waxed eloquent on political matters. Next day, in his column in Rio's influential Correio da Manhā, he developed his thoughts in an open letter to Miller and, indirectly...