Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
...ever since, even though the Paulistas boycotted the election which President Vargas got around to holding in 1934. What Rio Grandenses have been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify himself as a candidate for next year...
...playing golf with the Archbishop on Manila's Wack Wack links. For the duration of the Congress President Quezon invited Cardinal Dougherty to stay in Malacanan Palace, the old residence of Spanish and U. S. Governors General. But before the Cardinal arrived last week the wily brown politico slipped away, bound for Washington, he said, to confer on the date and agenda of a U. S.-Philippine trade and economic conference, which other Filipinos considered was of no pressing importance. From Tokyo Manuel Quezon welcomed the Cardinal by telephone while Senora Quezon appeared . at official receptions, addressed women...
Germany. Adolf Hitler cut loose with the whole German Press in fighting acknowledgment that the President's shoe pinches Germany. Sneered the Berliner Tageblat:. "That such commonplaces should be uttered from so exalted a rostrum!" Snapped the Frankfurter Zeitung: "The United States is merging more & more into a politico-moral autarchy which would probably be justified if it were living on a remote and self-sufficient island." The German Foreign Office's semi-official Diplomatische Korrespondenz noted the President's "egoistic wish to avoid any participation...
Most important political upset was the removal from office of General Vincencio Pérez Soto, Governor of Zulia, by hollow-cheeked Provisional President Eleazar López Contreras. In Zulia lie practically all Venezuela's oil wells. General Pérez Soto was a politico in whom U. S., British and Dutch oil companies had largely invested. He was generally considered to be the strongest man in the country. He took his removal quietly last week-and waited...