Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little gem of a Central American revolution occurred in El Salvador last week. There were no obscure causes. The government of President Arturo Araujo, in its anxiety to economize,* had simply forgotten to pay the army officers' salaries for three months. Chief of Salvadorean Police was President Araujo's brother-in-law. The police were paid. The police remained loyal...
Abruptly in the middle of the night the guns of San Salvador's Fort La Artilleria began blazing away at the handsome colonnaded Presidential Palace. Officers of Fort El Sapote on the other side of the city, unaware of the revolution, tumbled out of bed to return the fire, but soon a messenger broke through with the big news. Then El Sapote too blazed away at the Palace. Policemen with their pay in their pockets bravely tried to defend the chief of state, as did a few loyal troops. Whether it was true or not, a rumor circulated that...
...WalI Street reported last week that Salvador's external finances were in excellent shape, that she has been making payment on some of her foreign debts ahead of schedule...
...Belgium Salvador...
Long patient lines of frightened Chinese stood in front of the customs house at Nogales last week and tried to get into the U. S. Arizona jails all along the border were filled with them. Into San Francisco harbor came 49 Chinese merchants on the Panama steamer El Salvador. Their money was gone; they were gloomily resigned to returning to Hongkong and poverty...