Word: benitez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quotations are from A History of the Orient, by Professors Steiger, Beyer and Benitez, published...
...Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, officials admitted that Bolivian resistance in the Gran Chaco has recently grown stiffer but claimed that Fort Saavedra, in the strategic sector of the Chaco, would fall within a fortnight. Paraguay's Minister of War, Pastor Benitez. declared that half the officers and staff officers of Bolivia have been either killed, wounded or captured in the past four months. Bolivia's war department retorted that 2,000 Paraguayans had been killed in the first seven days of the attack on Fort Saavedra...
...sign. Chilean officers last week called on dapper little President Carlos Guillermo Davila. former Ambassador to the U. S., and it was no dream. While airplanes droned over the Presidential palace for nearly 24 hours, General Bartolome Blanche, the Army's Commander in Chief, and Col. Arturo Merino Benitez, Chief of the Air Force, argued and threatened. Finally President Davila resigned. General Blanche became Chile's Provisional President...
...announced the creation of six great corporations (modeled on the trusts of Russia) to nationalize Chilean industry and foreign trade. But Provisional President Blanche's time was short. Col. Grove was still on Juan Fernandez Island, but another colonel of aviation was at hand, Col. Arturo Merino Benitez. He followed his predecessor's precedent, forced Blanche out of office. But only for a few hours. The Army remained loyal to General Blanche. Troops were rushed to El Bosque airport and Col. Benitez with 90 of his aviators prudently took off. They were captured when they landed at Ovalle...