Word: sim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America, directed his own death scene. At San José in Costa Rica, Morazán commanded the firing squad which faced him. He corrected the aim, ordered fire, fell, raised his bloody head to order a second volley. He died as great a hero in Central America as Simón Bolivar in South America...
...Chicago Sun led its editorial page with this laconic editorial one day last week. It was a soft answer to the dirtiest punch the Tribune's incredible Bertie McCormick had yet thrown in his bitter feud with the Sim's fairdealing Marshall Field. The Tribune, gloating over Ralph Ingersoll's "shamed" enlistment in the Army (TIME, Aug. 3), had blathered...
This year Public Welfare Minister Dr. Gustavo Baz and his wife, acting as godparents, witnessed the marriage of Octogenarian Simón Rocha and his sweetheart of these several decades-enough decades, in fact, to see the birth of 18 children. One of Simón Rocha's grandsons was married at the same time...
Then, tipped off that big news was coming, the correspondents guessed rightly at MacArthur's arrival, but were forbidden to tell how he got there. So they were scooped again by the Chicago Sim's H. R. Knickerbocker and the New York Herald Tribune's Allen Raymond, who presumably had not heard that details of MacArthur's trip were off the record...
Died. Doña Elena Patiño, Marquesa de Valparaiso y del Mérito, daughter of Tin King Simón I. Patiño of Bolivia; after a month's illness; in Manhattan. A woman in her early 30s, she had been given a fortune by her fabulously wealthy father when she married, and she became one of the world's wealthiest women when he distributed the bulk of his estate to his family last...