Word: trujillo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those projects were to smash three dictators: Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Honduras' Dictator Tiburcio Carías. The battle-hardened exiles in Costa Rica had formed a "junta for the liberation of the Caribbean." Said bald old Dominican Juan Rodriguez Garcia, who had sunk $400,000 in last summer's abortive plot against Trujillo: "The free people of the Caribbean are uniting against despots. The liberation of the Caribbean is our object...
Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras and the Dominican Republic's Dictator Trujillo obliged. They sent pilots and mechanics to Costa Rica to keep government planes flying. To Nicaragua's Somoza, helping Costa Rica's leftwing, Communist-backed government was partly a matter of business. If Ulate won the war, Somoza stood to lose the fat profits of a business he had been running with the family of Costa Rica's ex-President Calderon Guardia. The business: selling Nicaraguan cattle in Costa Rica, contrary to the laws of both countries. On the other hand, Guatemala...
Jackie Robinson, who arrived at the Dodgers' training camp at Ciudad Trujillo three days late and 15 lbs. overweight, will probably be switched to his old job at second base, now that Ed ("Walking Man") Stanky has been traded to the Braves...
With the calendar reading only three days to spring and eleven days to the opening game on the schedule, Coach Dolph Samborski's varsity nine is slowly rounding into shape down at Briggs Cage. But the cage is no Cuidad Trujillo and Massachusetts isn't particularly known for its warm weather this time of the year, so the job is not an easy...
Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...