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...President likes to travel fast, even has his valet push his wheel chair rapidly. He is disconcerting, quick, and a mild tyrant in social affairs; he invents complicated variations of poker, which he almost invariably wins and which in consequence he is the only one who enjoys playing. But if the other players protest he good-naturedly returns to the rules. He goes to the movies at the White House about every fortnight, sits in the front row, and comments aloud about the picture. If he did the same thing in a public theater, it "would cause people...
Ubico used plenty of violence. His police and soldiers ranged the capital, threatening, killing. But the strike did not lose force. Day by day, like a fangless constrictor, it tightened its coils around the encircled tyrant...
After a week or so, the tyrant yielded slightly and fired his strongest supporter, General David H. Ordoñez, head of his Gestapo. The people were not appeased: they were after Ubico himself. At last, after twelve days, he handed his resignation to Congress, begged that his person and wealth be spared, set out for the frontier...
...unarmed, national strike drove President Jorge Ubico, Tyrant of Guatemala, from office last week...
Hardly had TIME'S report on Guatemala's tyranny appeared last week than a popular movement to overthrow Guatemala's tyrant began. Striking students p raded the streets of Guatemala City, defied the martial law imposed by Dictator Jorge Ubico (TIME, June 26). Bystanders and women trailed along, trembling at first, then gaining courage. The tyrant's police and soldiers were ready. They routed the unarmed paraders with tear gas and bullets, killed an undisclosed number. The seething city settled down to whispering quiet...