Word: panamanians
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...before had they heard or seen such a speaker. He cracked jokes, talked fast, talked slow, beat his chest with his fists, waved his arms in circles, crouched, whirled, broke off his most telling sentences to invite applause. In the hall of Panama City's Inter-American University, Panamanian students roared approval. Yes, they liked the man from Peru, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre...
Would ex-Barnstormer Yerex be satisfied with a seat on the sidelines? Those who knew him well doubted it. Last week his longtime friend Ed Scott organized a Panamanian company to operate land, sea and air transportation lines...
...Panamanian President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia heard last week that the National Assembly, due to convene on Jan. 2, might oust him from the Presidency, which he seized by "Constitutional" flimflam in 1941. He decided to do something about it. By summary decree he dissolved the Assembly and suspended the Constitution. He also imposed strict censorship and posted mounted police around the hostile National Youth Congress...
...From U.S. soldiers in Panama there were not only letters but silk stockings and perfume. For the G.I.s, who look upon Panama as the jumping-off place, had made good use of the unrationed stocks in the luxury-rich Panamanian stores...
Panama wanted to know what had happened to 10,000 undelivered machetes ordered from the U.S. (the machetes had been sent to the Solomon Islands). Panamanians also wanted machinery to manufacture cement ("Get us that machinery and we will erect a statue of you in concrete"). Said a Panamanian who heard one of the Vice President's speeches: "He speaks our language very well, and the unusual thing about him is that, unlike the average gringo who chooses the simplest words, Wallace uses ten-dollar words...