Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew up in the section where Germán Busch was born, not far from most of Standard Oil's Bolivian fields. Dionisio Foianini studied pharmacy in Italy, returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded Army officers that expropriating $17,000,000 worth of Standard Oil properties would be a popular political move, set up a State Petroleum Board to exploit the appropriated fields...
...petition signed by over three hundred undergraduates, Harvard has signified its eagerness to make America's "good neighbor" niceties more than diplomatic syrup. Harvard's curriculum cannot fill the demand. Its catalogue boasts only one half-course in Brazilian history, shared with Argentina and Chile, and one course in Portugese, given in alternate years and in old Portugese at that...
...delicate job of Ambassador to Europe's newest Dictator Francisco Franco of Spain, the President named Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, *63, of Richmond, Va., urbane careerman whose first consulate 29 years ago was in Zanzibar, and who since 1933 has been trying, as Ambassador, to keep Argentina friendly despite a U. S. embargo on Argentine beef...
There is scarcely a stranger spot for Nazi expansion than Argentina's windy, frigid Patagonia, which stretches 1,000 miles down the Atlantic coast almost to Cape Horn. Seeing how their Führer grabs off huge bites of Europe, Nazi agents on other continents are prone to have big ideas over the possibilities of getting some Lebensraum ("living room") in less populated areas of the world. Last week Argentines had a case of Hitler jitters when it was asserted by Noticias Gráficas, sensational Buenos Aires newspaper, that ambitious Nazi agents had presented their Government with...
...student group announced that it hoped to establish in the future two scholarships each for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Columbia and to extend them to other countries if the former proved successful...