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...Jorge Ubico comes close to being all things to all Guatemalans. He is a radio enthusiast, an amateur photographer, a gadget lover, a motorcyclist, a general in the Army, the official Father of his Country and President of Guatemala. Handsome, ice-eyed President Ubico has proved to his own and most people's satisfaction that he is an able, if high-handed, executive who has halved the national debt, constructed many a road and public building...
President Ubico is a cautious caudillo. Elected in 1931 for a six-year term, in 1935 he nervously insisted on a plebiscite which abrogated the constitutional provision against re-election of a President for twelve years, gave him eight years more in office. Last week he decided again that his country needed a man like him: two years before his term expired he had a Constitutional Congress stretch his term again-this time until March...
...Guatemala President Jorge Ubico, elected in 1931, held a plebiscite in 1935, extended his term until 1943. In El Salvador Vice President General Maximiliano Hernàndez Martinez took office in 1931 after an Army revolt had deposed President Arturo Araujo. Refused recognition by the U. S., he resigned in 1934, ran for the Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President...
...request to CAB for a New Orleans-Panama route across the Gulf via Guatemala. New Orleans papers, envisioning their city as an international airport, played ball. Next morning the respected Times-Picayune ran a four-column map of the proposed route on page 1, slapped Ubico's picture in the middle, shouted "Greetings to Central America!" The Tribune printed special Spanish supplements...
...TACA purchase within about a week. Am Ex has the tacit backing of the U. S. War, Navy and State Departments. Pan Am has vast resources, an experienced Washington lobby and the knowledge that TACA's Guatemalan rights, core of the line, will expire next February-unless General Ubico renews them...