Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Araujo. whose British wife is the former Miss Dora Morton, seemed disinclined to listen to reason. Revolutionary troops chased him to Santa Ana on the Guatemalan border where he signed his resignation...
Christopher Columbus performed the impossible feat of making an egg stand on one end by slightly cracking and flattening that end of the eggshell. Sheldon Whitehouse, by means equally simple and direct, un-cracked the Guatemalan joke...
...more than sufficient tact. Tactfully Minister Whitehouse gave the No. 3 president an "out," explained that for him to remain in office would be contrary to "The Treaty of 1923." What the treaty.is all about was comparatively immaterial.* The No. 3 president, who had not scrupled to ignore the Guatemalan constitution, was presumably not squeamish about scraps of paper. He took 24 hours to think over the impression made on him by Minister Whitehouse, then resigned...
...joke was now almost back into its shell, the shell almost perfectly patched up. Finishing touches were added by the Guatemalan assembly which named a (4th) president pro tempore, Dr. Jose Maria Reina Andrade. To the press Minister Whitehouse indicated that this arrangement is eminently satisfactory, for a quick election will be held, an unquestionably constitutional (5th) president chosen...
Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found...