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Three days earlier in Bogota, Colombia's capital, President & Senora Enrique Olaya Herrera had called at the Bank of the Republic to have their thick gold wedding rings cut from their fingers. Thousands of other Colombian spouses with big finger joints made the same sacrifice. Brides & grooms slipped off their rings, flung them into the Treasury's "Defense Chest...
...Died. Senora Leonor Llorente Calles. 27, second wife of Mexico's political boss and onetime President. General Plutarco Elias Calles; of a brain tumor; in Mexico City. Last June General Calles took his wife to Boston for a brain operation by famed Dr. Harvey Gushing who operated but told General Calles the tumor was mortal. General Calles' first wife, Natalia Chacon Calles, mother of nine, died in 1927 at Los Angeles whither Mexican law forbade Mexico's President to follow during his administration. The second wife, mother of two, singer, law & dentistry student, whom General Calles married...
...these booths until last week a plump, spectacled little Spanish woman, Senora Condeleria Brau-Soler, shrilly hawked beauty creams that she stirred up herself in a hotel room not far away. Snivelling loudly, Senora Brau-Soler led police to that room last week. There on the floor, sharp under the single drop light and the grimy, epileptic wallpaper, lay the body of her lover, a grey-haired man of 62, still handsome. Senora Brau-Soler had nearly severed his neck with a razor. Within an hour transatlantic cables were clicking, for Senora Brau-Soler's dead lover always insisted...
Socialites who packed the courtroom waved handkerchief encouragement to Senora de la Torre Mendoza. Her military judges avoided her flashing gaze...
During the trial, which ended last week, the prosecutor produced no evidence linking Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza to the attempted crime but proved up to the hilt that she has often voiced antagonism to President Machado. That was enough for the court martial. It sentenced all the accused to 14 years penal servitude each...