Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent interview with General "Tacho" Somoza, William Forbis, TIME'S Central America correspondent, told the Nicaraguan dictator that in a report for TIME on censorship in Central America he had had to put Nicaragua at the bottom of the list. Somoza, who was himself the subject of TIME'S Nov. 15, 1948 cover story, insisted that "There's no censorship here." Forbis said the cable office apparently didn't know that...
Died. Dr. Victor Manuel Román y Reyes, 77, mild-mannered, figurehead President of Nicaragua since 1947, uncle and loyal retainer of strong-arm Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza; after an operation for cancer; in Philadelphia...
...republic's obligations were met. At his rolltop desk in a musty corner of the wood-and-adobe Managua customhouse, Irving A. Lindberg did an honest and efficient job. More important, as the years passed, he made friends with a rising young National Guard officer named Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...Marines, who went in as early as 1910 to pacify the country, finally cleared out for good in 1933. Three years later, Somoza took over. Lindberg stayed on as his collector of customs and Nicaragua's credit strengthened steadily. Lindberg got $10,000 a year, living expenses, one of the best houses in Managua, and two months' vacation in the U.S. each year. No man to throw his money around, the customs collector skipped the dictator's all-night poker parties. But in 1944, when a sit-down strike of businessmen threatened Somoza's power, Lindberg...