Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House went an angry cable from leaders of Puerto Rico's Coalition Party, begging President Roosevelt to take Rex Tugwell away. In Washington, slick-haired, solemn Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, passionately denounced Rex Tugwell as "an American quisling." Said Commissioner Pagan: "He is doing everything so that loyal American citizens in Puerto Rico become sore and disunited. . . . Governor Tugwell is doing a good job for the Axis powers...
...rambunctiously bursting its boundaries to the West when South America's "Great Liberator," Simon Bolivar, wrote these words in 1822. Latin American countries all had grandiose ideas, a few had paper constitutions, many had military despots...
Last week foreign ministers of 21 republics representing 300,000,000 Americans opened consultative sessions, and a triumph-one that could at last vindicate Bolivar's Pan Americanism-was within their grasp...
...ranging from subversive activity to post-war rehabilitation, they counted up the signs-good, bad, but never indifferent. As they did so a leading Latin American statesman, looking beyond the immediate necessity of a common American front against the Axis, expressed to a TIME correspondent an opinion that brought Bolivar up to date, and beyond...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...