Word: somozaism
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Carcharinus fired the ambitions of Harvard fish-fanciers a year ago, and one was caught in Lake Nicaragua, only to be sunk by a barbarous Hun submarine on his way north. Then President Somoza caught three of them, but lack of shipping facilities decayed everything but the President's snapshots. The last attempt pulled out "C. N.", as he's familiarly called by those who love...
...through Salvador Mendieta, rector (until his resignation last week) of Central University at Managua, Nicaragua. For 40 years septuagenarian Mendieta has kept Morazán's dream alive in the minds of students. Back of Mendieta was the sponsorship of Nicaragua's dictatorlet, genial President General Anastasio Somoza...
...practitioner of celebrations, circuses and public works for his land of spectacular scenery and explosive people, General Somoza rules Nicaragua with the backing of the Nicaraguan National Guard -presented to him by U.S. marines who finally withdrew on Jan. 2, 1933. Last week he used them to arrest 13 persons, including Conservative generals accused of a German-inspired revolt plot. He believes that there is strength and prosperity in union. "All you have to do," says he, "is go to the U.S. and you can see that...
...General Somoza's highly sensible plan calls for a common currency, a single flag, a common customs union, a federal army and a federal congress. With a typical Central American gesture, he offered to resign as president "at any time a union . . . can be brought about...
Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza's daughter Lillian, Apple Blossom Queen of Virginia in 1940, gets a new title Nov. 14: Queen of the Nicaraguan Army...