Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela...
...financial juggler, began to totter early this year, he desperately sought more cash to save it. Guterma, then boss of the F. L. Jacobs Co.. which controlled the Mutual Broadcasting System and at least twelve other corporations, found a likely moneybags in the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, always willing to pay for favorable publicity. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington charged that Guterma, 44, collected $750,000 from Trujillo to disseminate "political propaganda" and failed to register as an agent of a foreign power. The grand jury also indicted as defendants Hal Roach...
Batista itched to get out of the Dominican Republic almost from the day he hit there last January. A subdued and indifferent man desiring only to enjoy the $40 million plus that he stole from Cuba, Batista instead found himself sucked into anti-Castro plots by Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. A Cuban general named Jose Eleuterio Pedraza (who urged Batista to stay in Cuba and fight instead of fleeing) became Trujillo's favorite, put the bite on Batista for arms money. When Batista dragged his feet, he came in for scathing attacks in Trujillo's press (BATISTA SHOULD...
...clay pots for cooking, a few plates, no silverware. Candles were the only light at night; the bathroom was a hole in one wall. Wooden tables were used as beds, stacked one atop the other like double-decker berths. The man who kept his family thus imprisoned was Rafael Perez Hernandez, 54, husband and father, by profession a purveyor of homemade rat poison...
When Perez came home, the police were waiting. At headquarters, the full, incredible story came out. A bitter, unbalanced man who had lost his left arm in a train accident, Rafael Perez did not believe in God, or doctors, or much of anything else. His first child was named Son of the Sun, and when the baby fell sick with dysentery, Rafael told his wife: "Nature will cure the baby." Son of the Sun died. A year later, Evolution of the World was born-to die soon after for lack of medical attention. When the next child, a girl named...