Word: somozaism
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...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...
...statement drew applause from other Latin nations. Even Trujillo's old ally, Nicaraguan Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its grievances that way." At week's end, Latin diplomats were laying odds that the point would not be lost on lonely Trujillo...
...with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak, the atmosphere seemed sticky. He promptly aired it by saying: "What Nicaragua needs most is a good third baseman...
...weeks Nicaragua's foxy, folksy Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza toured his volcano-studded domain. Ostensibly, he was inspecting his Atlantic Highway (not yet completed) and the villages and towns along the Atlantic coast. Actually he was giving his local jejes (leaders) the word on 1951's presidential election. Tacho, who was President from 1937 to 1947, would like to be President again in name as well as in fact...
...matter of hard fact, both Osorio and Gálvez probably preferred hard-boiled Somoza to "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo. But both were enjoying governmental honeymoons ("Glory to God in Heaven and Gálvez in Honduras!" burbled a Tegucigalpa poster), and both were playing it cagey. They proclaimed their respective countries friendly to Guatemala "as to all nations," pleaded ignorance of any plans to meet Arévalo, and let it go at that...