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Sandino's memory was still the most combustible thing in Nicaragua. To fill the great little man's boots, a swart, chunky dentist named Pedro Jose Zepeda popped up in Mexico City last week and announced that he had the papers that entitled him to leadership of Sandino's followers. Cried he: "I have ten generals and 1,500 armed men ready to take the field at the order of President Sacasa against the dictatorship now in control of the country [Somoza...
Although the acting of Milton I. Byer '35, who played the part of Jose Segura, a bold, bad, South American, was outstanding, it failed to excel the performance of Retta, played by Nixon de Tarnowsky '35, who truly met the requirements of any man's ideal girl. Joseph D. Fisher '35 portrayed a vivacious young lady named Mamie with the proper amount of gusto, and Kenneth Di Menna '34 succeeded in amusing the audience as the Amewican Awistocrat, Lieuteuant Cadwallader, who had slight difficulty in speaking...
...Rinconada, Spain, what sounded like a low-flying plane sent Jose Megia, 13, running out from family dinner to peer skyward. He saw an arrow of dense smoke headed straight for his house. He screamed. Father Megia ran out, was bowled over by a powerful down-thrust of air. Mother Megia ran out, dragging a mattress. Jose Megia smelled sulphur, heard one sharp detonation, saw his home burn up. Patiently the Megia family sat down on the mattress...
...coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution in 1926. A vengeful-looking little man, scarcely five feet tall, part Indian, part Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed all the married...
Meantime, in San Jose, a grand jury, sure of Governor Rolph's approval, failed to find evidence for indicting participants in the hanging of Kidnappers John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond (TIME...