Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dense forests of the Orinoco valley. For this he will use a new version of Higgins' famed Eureka boat especially built for jungle rivers. Already he has 25 of these boats ready to go. They will cut down the time from Puerto Ayacucho to Ciudad Bolivar from a hazardous ten days by canoe to 24 hours by Eureka-and carry a hundred times as much each trip...
...greatest obstetrical leaders of the country, not only in our time but in all of history." In such words did Chicago's famed Obstetrician Fred Lyman Adair speak of his chief, the late Dr. Joseph Bolivar DeLee (TIME, April 13) at the Second American Congress on Obstetrics and Gynecology last week in St. Louis. The influence of Dr. DeLee was indeed palpable at this meeting...
Died. Dr. Joseph Bolivar De Lee, 72, pioneer in modern obstetrics, founder of Chicago's Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary and the city's Maternity Center; of a heart attack; in Chicago. His 48-year crusade for better maternity care has been given considerable credit for the reduction of maternal and infant death rates...
...SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PUERTO RICO, ELECTED BY UNIVERSAL MALE AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE ONE YEAR AGO, HAVE TODAY APPROVED A RESOLUTION, WITH VOTES NOT ONLY OF MAJORITY PARTY BUT OF ALL PARTIES REPRESENTED IN THE LEGISLATURE, VIGOROUSLY REPUDIATING THE ATTACK BY PUERTO RICAN RESIDENT COMMISSIONER BOLIVAR PAGAN AGAINST GOVERNOR TUGWELL AS FALSE IN ITS IRRESPONSIBLE ALLEGATIONS AND AS PROVIDING, UNLESS REPUDIATED BY THE PEOPLE AND THE LEGISLATURE, A BASIS FOR NAZI PROPAGANDA IN LATIN AMERICA WHICH IS ALREADY BEING USED BY THE BERLIN RADIO...
...There were also "certain defects," lack of appreciation of subordinates, unwillingness to admit shortcomings, a tendency to complain and be sorry for himself. But "these were the defects of the qualities that made him a great historical figure. For he was not, like a Washington, a Cromwell or a Bolivar, an instrument chosen by multitudes to express their wills. . . . He was Man alone with God against human stupidity and depravity, against greedy conquistadors, cowardly seamen, even against nature...