Word: senors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warping in to its berth the "Communists" would assemble at the quayside with hideous cries and frightening gestures. At the proper dramatic instant up would rush a squad of well-groomed police to disperse the howling Communists in the most efficient manner. All this would entertain and instruct Senor Welles during the irksome time that his baggage was being landed. The arrival and landing of Ambassador Welles was not quite according to schedule. For some unexplained reason he disembarked with Charge d'Affaires Edward L. Reed at the port captain's pier instead of at the dock where...
Soon Jose was in a comfortable rut and wanted nothing better for the rest of his days. But Senor Wilson, his Americano boss, had his eye on Jose: when a new mine was opened up in the hills he promoted Jose to be timekeeper there. Again Jose did the job satisfactorily, but still he did not like it. When he got a chance to buy a farm and settle down once more he did it. Senor Wilson and Jose's other forward-looking friends could not understand it; but at last Jose was happy. He flattered Maria by marrying...
...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...
...decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative elections, which may violently split the majority party, will be in effect a plebiscite on H. R. 7233 by the islands' 13,000,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile, Senor Quezon, whom many Filipinos already hail as the islands' "Presidente," planned to sail for the U. S. and Washington in the spring to demand "immediate independence" from the Roosevelt administration. El Presidents Quezon is 54. Under H. R. 7233 he would not become the unborn Commonwealth's chief executive...
...Minister in the new regime. Reputed to have been a "bear" speculator when the Chilean peso was falling. Don Gustavo is in bad odor. He owes his Finance Ministry, say scandal mongering Santiagans, to a strategic investment made eight years ago when enemies of the "Lion of Tarapaca" chased Senor Alessandri out of Chile and left him with exactly...