Word: ora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly petite and girlish Señora Sandino (see cut) was kept constantly under surveillance by "Lieut. Brownlee." Not a tick of her telegraph instrument, not a whisper in her office, not a letter in her mail escaped "Big Feet...
Soon however the natives of San Rafael del Norte began to question the Lieutenant's motives. They charged him with the only thing of which a U. S. Marine is supposed to be ashamed-cowardice. They insinuated that "Big Feet" was keeping Señora Sandino in her job because he was afraid to fire her-afraid of her husband...
President and Senora Juan Campisteguy of Uruguay were at the pier. Señora Campisteguy to take Mrs. Hoover to the Parque Hotel where an entire upper floor was reserved, President Campisteguy to have a half-hour with Mr. Hoover at the National Palace. The populace was out in scores of thousands but here, more than in most of the South American cities visited, were heard cries of "Viva Sandino" and "Down with imperialistic America...
Woodbridge began to speak. . . ." Such was the Denver Post's description of the hearty welcome that Denver gave the advertising people. One Miss Ora Williams of Pine Bluff, Ark., tumbled off a fire truck; one Miss Betty Blunk had her body scorched by blank cartridge fire; bathing girls put on a "battle"; the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps played "music"; hired Indians played as natives; a hotel thief took $400 from Tom Nokis, president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, while he slept; a pickpocket took $210 from D. Edward Gibbs, program director of the International Advertising Association...
...hours later the coffin of Señora Calles was conveyed to the neighboring Panteón de Dolores, the national cemetery. There a battery of artillery fired the presidential salute. Minister of Education Puig Casauranc pronounced a brief, non-religious address, alluding matter-of-factly to the future life. This was deemed fitting because of the anti-religious views and policy of Señor Calles and his Cabinet (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, et seq.). Because Señora Calles was a devout Roman Catholic, persons of that faith rejoiced to hear that a priest had performed appropriate last...