Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Junketing through Central America last week, Major General Harry Vaughan, President Truman's military aide, stopped off in Managua, where Nicaragua's President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza tossed a champagne party for him and his cornpanion, White House Physician Dr. Wallace Graham...
Preparing to board his plane for the flight back to Washington, Vaughan was asked what he thought of Strong Man Somoza. "He could just as easily be President of the U.S.," said the general. "After all, he and Harry are just alike. They both like the same things-a friendly poker game, a good story and a stiff drink...
After World War II, which he spent ferrying Allied planes across the Atlantic, Silverthorne completed his education by operating a Nicaraguan airline in partnership with Dictator Tacho Somoza's son Tachito. Two years ago he sold out and, with a DC-3 and two Lockheed Lodestars, moved on to Tegucigalpa to form ANHSA...
Died. Dr. Desiderio Roman, 79, Philadelphia surgeon, onetime (1943-45) president of the International College of Surgeons; in Philadelphia. A U.S. citizen ince 1898, Dr. Roman was brother of the ate Nicaraguan President Victor Manuel Ionian y Reyes, uncle of Nicaraguan president Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...Costa Rica to file his story, dropped by the cable office before leaving. To his astonishment, he found that all press messages could go out freely. After the operator had dispatched Forbis' copy, he asked what had happened. The manager told him that he had been visited by Somoza's chief aide and censor, and that the conversation had gone as follows: "From now on nothing is to be censored. That is, unless it seems to be critical of General . . . No, nothing at all is to be censored...