Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dolly was the only comic character on the Nicaraguan stage. In the Officers' Club down the curving street from the palace, The Boss-tired, nervous ex-President Anastasio Somoza-ruled the powerful National Guard and sat on the country's formidable stack of arms. From the haven of the Mexican Embassy, old Dr. Leonardo Argüello, who had been kicked out of the presidency when he turned on The Boss and decided to run the country himself (TIME, June 2), spoke out with surprising boldness. Biding its time was Somoza's real opposition, led by General...
Stake-$100 Million. The bloodless Nicaraguan explosion had been set off by Arguello's reckless ultimatum to Somoza to get out of the country within 24 hours. Somoza was of a mind to take a powder. After all, he was due for an operation at Rochester's Mayo Clinic, and he was said to have a fat $20 million in the U.S. But he also had $100 million in land, cattle, railways, bananas and coffee in Nicaragua. He would trust that to no one. From Argüello he got an extension of time...
Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza has never intended to be anything but boss of his country. Having been dictator for ten years, he put his own man-goat-bearded Leonardo Argüello-into the presidency only last month (TIME, May 12). Tacho himself stayed on as head of Nicaragua's U.S. Marine-trained National Guard. But things did not go exactly according to plan. President Argüello showed disturbing symptoms of independence. This week it got to be too much for Somoza. His National Guard moved in and took over the Government...
Little Children. Both sides were sure to appeal for U.S. intervention-the opposition to demand a fair shake, the Somozistas to get their victory certified. For about a year, ever since he got the word that the U.S. State Department favored democracy in the banana belt too, Dictator Somoza has been trying to get right with Spruille Braden. Asked last week about charges that he had tyrannized (and plundered) Nicaragua, he replied: "These little countries are like little children. When a boy's sick you've got to force castor oil down him whether he likes...
...Government-rigged election passed off with a minimum of stabbings and disorder. Results will not be certified until next week, but Somoza claimed victory for his candidate and successor, Dr. Leonardo Augüello, 71, a druggist with a deep-dyed beard. General Chamorro's candidate, Dr. Enoc Aguado, also claimed victory...