Word: guillermo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After mulling over this prospect for two days, the bitter rivals got together. Emerging from the Palacio like a couple of spanked schoolboys, Jefes Carlos Lleras Restrepo of the Liberals and Guillermo León Valencia of the Conservatives pledged support to the government's peace program. As a starter, they sent bipartisan posses out to convince troublemakers that the killing off of each other's voters was no way to win an election...
Weil-Heeled Heirs. Jose Yves Liman-tour III, grandson of Diaz' nimble-witted Secretary of Treasury, conducts the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Oct. 4); his father, Guillermo Limantour, is Mexico City's top real-estate operator, and owns large chunks of Avenida Juarez. Rivaling Guillermo in real estate is Pedro Corcuera, the sugar king of Jalisco, who saw the Revolution coming, cannily swapped his country estates for city holdings...
More sophisticated Mexicans took the comet in stride. At Tacubaya Observatory, Astronomer Guillermo Haro patiently explained over & over that there was nothing to fear, that the comet would soon disappear. Some tradesmen saw a chance to make money. A haberdasher advertised: "Comet Sale-Everything Goes Fast!" Gloria Duval, chic hairdresser at the Hotel Reforma, introduced a Comet Hairdo, an upswept...
...hard-working Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet to postpone discussions of hemisphere economics until a special conference to be held next year, probably at Buenos Aires, and after the Bogotá Conference. Having made this decision, the delegates amiably steamrollered (15-5) the proposal of Cuba's Guillermo Belt, who had campaigned for a treaty clause barring economic aggression...
...Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, Nicaraguan Ambassador...