Word: pepe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haven't the slightest idea how much the band will be penalized," police lieutenant Mario Pepe said Saturday. He pointed out that the maximum fine for parading without permission is six months in jail and a $100 fine...
While the buses were parked outside the station house, waiting for police action, an off-duty patrolman, Anthony Matteo, staggered onto one of the buses and made feeble attempts to interfere with proceedings, making profane references to other policemen, especially Pepe, who took charge of booking. Matteo was later charged with drunkenness and breach of peace...
Following the posting of bail, Pepe allowed the band to leave, with the warning: "These things have gone too far. There won't be any next time...
While he was running Costa Rica in 1948-49 as head of a revolutionary junta, Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres had his hands full with the aftermath of civil war, but he still found time to start turning his country into the moderately socialistic state he wanted. Figueres nationalized the banks, slapped a 10% tax on capital, raised wages by government decree. Complained one wealthy cattleman: "God made the world in six days, but look at what Figueres is trying to do in one night...
Last week, flushed with the greatest popular vote ever received by a Costa Rican politician, Pepe Figueres was talking softly. He pledged that U.S. investment capital would find an "environment of safety and honesty" in Costa Rica. "There is one thing I want to make clear: this is going to be a pro-United States government. That is definite...