Word: somozaism
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...Sean T. O'Kelly, Vice President of the Executive Council of Eire, who prophesied: "I don't think there's a ghost of a chance of Ireland's fighting for anyone if she can get out of it"; Nicaragua's burly President-Dictator Anastasio Somoza; San Francisco's Mayor Angelo J. Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton...
Later Anastasio Somoza addressed Congress, blandly asked it to authorize construction of his canal as a continental defense measure. General Somoza found Congress in a grumpier mood than...
...Aside from his military display for Dictator Somoza, Franklin Roosevelt let the week pass without making any further reply to Dictator Hitler's sarcastigation of last fortnight. But young Adolf A. Berle Jr., his European sharpshooter at the State Department, was permitted to sound off in Manhattan before the Academy of Political Science. He declared that the American nations meant what they said last winter at Lima: Dictators keep...
...people pay the Somoza expenses during the visit, from New Orleans to Washington to the New York World's Fair & back. f Senor Somoza's presents to Sefior Roosevelt: a complete issue of Nicaraguan stamps; an 8-ft. table inlaid with Nicaraguan hardwoods and gold, showing Roosevelt I and a map of the Panama Canal, Roosevelt II and a much bigger map of Nicaragua and the proposed canal...
...Representative Harold Knutson, Minnesota Republican, caused Majority Leader Sam Rayburn deep pain with the following "unfortunate" remarks about Franklin Roosevelt's reception for President Somoza of Nicaragua (see p. 15): "Heading the parade was a White House limousine bearing that great democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the stern dictator from Nicaragua, sitting side by side carrying on an amiable conversation. . . . Overhead droned hundreds of aircraft, burning the taxpayers' money...