Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar activity on behalf of Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Santo Domingo, Mr. De Besa, flashing a setting of diamonds given him by dictators, slipped back into Washington as chief of a Dominican Republic News Bureau set up for him by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Molina Trujillo...
...LOST KING-Rafael Sabatini- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). "The modern Dumas'" 26th riproaring tale gives adventure story readers their money's worth in 379 pages about Louis XVI's son, the "Lost Dauphin...
...army's leader, Lieut. Colonel Ramón Paredes, issued a manifesto: "The unanimous will of the army and navy is that the eminent citizen, Colonel Franco, will continue President of the Government." Two days later, however, ''Eminent Citizen" Rafael Franco, who seized the Presidency also by a bloodless coup in 1936, found himself somewhat less eminent, was "asked" to resign, because he refused to form a Cabinet amenable to the military. Law Professor Félix Paiva, Dean and Rector of the University of Asunción, Vice President in 1920, was named Provisional President...
Last week Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's summer city hall (see p. 12) was mildly excited when a letter arrived from Rafael Espaillat de la Mota, Dominican consul general in New York, announcing that President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic was presenting to Mayor LaGuardia four solenodons. The mayor passed the word to the Park Department, which had never heard of solenodons. When the Barinquen docked with the solenodons, one male had died. Remaining were a male, a female and a baby. Captain Ronald Cheyne-Stout, Director of the Zoo picked up his three bedraggled specimens...
...limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural to Paraguay's Provisional President Colonel Rafael Franco as it has seemed intolerable to Bolivia's Provisional President Colonel Jose David Toro, both professional fire-eaters who got into power by convincing their respective countrymen that the exhausted governments which signed the armistice had betrayed them...