Word: tacho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
Time for a Reckoning. Tacho gave him the presidential medal, appointed him an honorary cabinet member, and promoted him to general, a rank previously held only by himself. "If you're the only other general in the country," Tacho is supposed to have said when pinning on the stars, "I'm safe...
Last week, while 62-year-old Irving" Lindberg visited the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for a checkup and surgery, government accountants were going over the customs books. "Lindy's my friend," said Dictator Tacho. "I don't think there's anything wrong with his accounts. But Lindy's getting old." It looked very much as though the last survivor of the U.S. occupation...