Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costa Rica's Presidential campaign, so bitter that it threatened civil war (TIME, Feb. 14), ended last week in a comparatively peaceful election (two were killed in an interior village). The winners: 1) Teodoro Picado, candidate of incumbent President Rafael Calderón Guardia's Republicans and of the Leftist Vanguardia Popular; 2) Costa Rica, which kept its status as the only democracy in dictator-ridden Central America...
...Candidates. Liberal President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, author of an employer-hated labor code, cannot constitutionally succeed himself. Candidate of his Republican Party is handsome Teodoro Picado. Candidate of the opposition Democrats is sour-faced León Cortés, now supported by most of Costa Rica's capitalists and landowners...
...Senator Rafael Avila, head of Mexico's Truman Committee: "Nobody but a superman could solve the whole problem...
Costa Rica's President Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia assured Mr. Wallace that of all visits from foreign greats, "none has been so glorious as yours, due to the fact that you are a fellow citizen of that peerless democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said Henry Wallace, for publication: "I am not a politician...
...Mexican group are Bernardo Ponce and Gonzalo Baez Camargo, both of Excelsior; Jose Perez Moreno of Universal; Cesar Ortiz Tinoco, of El Popular; Rafael Herrerlas, of Novedades; Francisco M. Armand, of La Prensa; and Xavier Sanchez Gavito, of El Nacional...