Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tightest little tyranny in the Caribbean Sea, through a heavy fog of censorship, fortnight ago leaked news of trouble in the Dominican Republic. The brisk little tyrant, Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, had planned a year and a half vacation in the U. S. and Europe, his first trip off his island, presumably in company with his lush mistress, Donna Maria. Trujillo planned to stop in Washington to renew the 17-month moratorium on the $16,000,000 debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework...
Last week observers could make what they liked out of the following facts. Last fortnight Trujillo called home Minister Rafael Brache. Defiantly Brache resigned, stayed safely in Washington. Trujillo hinted that he might take his vacation, passing on the power to his brother Virgilio and to his No. 1 toady, Vice President Peynado, but he might take it on his hacienda, Fundacion, just outside the capital. In a superb stroke of dictating, he ordered through the puppet Assembly a resolution calling on him please not to leave the Dominican Republic. Next day he topped this by having himself recommended...
...open casinos at San Sebastian and Formentor. When both his casinos were raided, he asked for his money back. A parliamentary commission investigated his charges, reported last week with gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could not be found last week anywhere but, amid Monarchist chortles, Premier...
...Decent. Free from sex. Action. Nothing in the decadent line." Clean and decent contributors to Adventure have included George Jean Nathan, Ellis Parker Butler, Konrad Bercovici, Octavus Roy Cohen. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Albert Payson Terhune. the late Edgar Wallace. It was the first U. S. magazine to sponsor Rafael Sabatini...
...world's most efficient little Terrors. However, in practice, an Italian warboat in the Caribbean would hurt U. S. prestige as much as it would hurt Trujillo. For that reason the State Department last week called in the Dominican Republic's Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, put a quiet little bee in his ear. Minister Brache sent his Government a long cablegram, flew down to Santo Domingo to amplify it. Last week, before he had arrived, Trujillo set $50,000 bail for Barletta. Barletta's friends began trying to scrape up the $50,000 and for the moment...