Word: tegucigalpa
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Next week the show will move to Guatemala City, later to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for further handclasps...
...Panama City during the month of September 1936 and at that time arrangements were made for his continued use of Essolube Motor Oil for the Northern lap of his trip from Buenos Aires to New York. From this point contact was made with our representatives in San Jose, Managua, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Guatemala City requesting that the proper courtesies be extended upon his arrival. The Huasteca Petroleum Co. of Mexico was also notified with the request that they in turn contact associate companies across the U. S. border. We, therefore, were most interested in reading of the successful culmination...
Last week the Nicaraguan Government put out a postage stamp depicting "the official map of Nicaragua." Honduras promptly demanded the stamp's suppression. Nicaragua refused and the rumpus began. Many Nicaraguan residents of Honduras were returned home by their legation in Tegucigalpa; orators of both countries broadcast bitter speeches; Honduran students, learning that Nicaraguan firebrands were urging war, declared themselves ready to fight back, thundered in a manifesto that "to die for the Fatherland is to open the doors of immortality...
...Presidential Palace at Tegucigalpa, the pretty, mountain-rimmed capital of Honduras, chambermaids were busy last week dusting wicker chairs and a gold telephone, shaking out blankets, putting clean sheets on beds. On Feb. 1, barring further violence, Honduras will have a new President - General Tiburcio Carias Andino, burly, mustachioed farmer and reformed hotblood. President Vicente Mejia Colindres will retire to the bawdy seaport of Puerto Cortes, where he expects to practice medicine and raise cattle from a stock of three blooded cows impregnated by three blooded bulls presented to him by United Fruit Co. after the election last October...
...Honduras flight by his superior officers, by revolution, Captain Lisandro Garay of the Honduran Air Force last week at Floyd Bennett Field loaded a Bellanca monoplane with 360 gal. gasoline and Bert Acosta "to make a test flight." Unseen Supercargo Acosta sneaked away; Captain Garay took off, headed for Tegucigalpa, reprimand, glory, or death...