Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the last shot is fired in this World War II, historians as well as his own Slavic people will claim him as their George Washington, Simon Bolivar, Benito Juarez and Bernardo O'Higgins...
...Cheered speeches by a glittering array of bigwigs, including General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley. They also heard A.F. of L. President William Green, who stoutly defended organized labor's no-strike record...
Last week, dressed in his Gaucho garb, with his trusty maté pot strapped under the belly of his trusty horse Bolivar, Marcelino again set forth from Buenos Aires, with a string of eight horses and one bell mare. From Recife in Brazil Marcelino planned to ship over to Lisbon, thence to ride through Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania to Moscow's Red Square. He would leave a good Argentine horse with the Chief of State of each nation he passed through, saving the bell mare for Prime Minister Churchill on his way back...
...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...
...Americanism, says Dr. Quintanilla, is now in its fourth stage. "Bolivar was the romantic hero of our first act; Monroe the star of Act II; U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine [who instigated the first Pan-American Conference in Washington in 1889] the principal character of Act III; and one of America's greatest, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the hero of Act IV." In Roosevelt's administration "the Good Neighor Policy had been put to the test. . . . For the first time in the history of the Western Hemisphere, we of Latin America may confidently clasp the open...