Word: velascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santiago, Chile, exiled ex-President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador applied to the Ecuadorian Embassy for a visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...
...Into the Ministry of Labor went 30-year-old José Antonio Giron de Velasco, an earnest devotee of the cult of violence, who learned his trade in the toughest center of the pre-civil-war Falange, Valladolid...
...last week. From the packed galleries above him angry Bolivian spectators hissed & booed, kept up a steady chant of "Down with the Jews! Death to the Jews!" Jingoistic Congressmen waggled their fingers under his nose, made long speeches about national honor. Then, with deliberate gait, gumshoeing Deputy Jordan Velasco strode forward, lifted his eyes to the balconies, bellowed out: "I am proud of being an accuser. And, without wishing to compare myself with Zola, I accuse." Defendant Diez was on trial for selling out to an illegal passport ring peddling to Jewish refugees...
...bedlam of chest-pounding patriotism, Accuser Velasco and his colleagues began backtracking Diez's trail. It began, they said, in the Gran Hotel Paris, where police seized documents belonging to the ring's La Paz agents. There they found a check for $7,500 in Diez's favor, a slip of paper reading: "Dear Ed: Here goes the first payment; others follow...
...defense of his country's confiscation of the oil lands of American companies, Reverend Efrain Salinas y Velasco, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Mexico, explained the domestic and foreign policies of Mexico to about 50 students and Cambridge residents at Philips Brooks House last night...