Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government of Argentina last week ordered Buenos Aires radio station "El Pueblo" to cease & desist from broadcasting the sound of a horse neighing. Reason: the sound is "contrary to elementary esthetic standards...
...them, under the great golden lights of the Presidential Palace. A decade of rough memories of Batista dictatorship vanished in the soft subtropical air. Again & again the crowd called for Batista. At last he came out on the wide balcony, looked down, spoke slowly into the microphone: "Pueblo (people): Cuba has waited long for true democracy. At last we have come to see that day of freedom...
...pueblo applauded mightily. A wise oldster among them said: "I think that I have lived to see everything." Then the palace lights went out. The pueblo danced happily into the side streets. The President turned from the balcony. A Cuban era had ended...
Days of Dictatorship. A little more than ten years ago Fulgencio Batista had been one of the humblest of Cuba's humble pueblo. He began his education (including English) in a U.S.-Quaker missionary school. He made a hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then...
...neighbor countries; perhaps the ex-cane-chopper dreamed of becoming a voice in all Latin America. He was a man to watch. He was sure to keep one eye on the home island, to counter anything smacking of unpractical government. From his balcony last week he told his pueblo that if they ever needed him, he would answer their cries. Dr. Grau, preparing to move into the Presidential Palace next October, undoubtedly heard and pondered the outgoing dictator's promise...