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...former overlord of Chicago booze and prostitution was taken some 400 miles from Alcatraz to the Federal correctional prison on Terminal Island, off San Pedro, Calif. There he will be safer from fellow-prisoners' attempts to kill him, and will be treated for paresis, which makes him periodically violent. By good behavior and payment of his $20,000 balance due, he can leave Terminal Island November 19, unless paresis makes it advisable to lock him up for life...
...first Popular Front Government, organized as such, in the history of the Americas was inaugurated fortnight ago in a simple, one-minute ceremony when Chile's President-elect Pedro Aguirre Cerda put on a tricolored sash, symbol of his office. No heart-&-soul revolutionary like Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, President Aguirre is a top-flight lawyer, a member of the Radical Party and a millionaire landowner...
When Ambassador Pedro Martinez Fraga squired him to the White House. Boss Batista tactfully changed his uniform and spurs for a sporty grey suit and blue fedora. Franklin Roosevelt talked to him half an hour about Cuba. Afterward, Batista bubbled: "I was able to ascertain the enormous goodness in the President's character...
Candidate Pedro Aquirre Cedra, 59, leader of the Radical party (which, like the Radical Socialist group in France, is nearer centre than left) made his money as a lawyer and farmer. In the election he was backed by a Popular Front of Radical, Socialist and Communist Parties, the first in South America...
Picked up in the palace grounds with wounds in the head and abdomen was 21-year-old Dom Juan of Orleans & Bragança, son of Dom Pedro, official pretender to the Brazilian throne. Reported shot in the leg as he tried to join the fighting was Dom Juan's 25-year-old brother, Pedro. These incidents led to speculations that back of the Integralistas was a move to restore the monarchy. Founded in 1822 by Dom Pedro I, son of Portugal's King Dom Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted...