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...midnight, standing under a portrait of Simon Bolivar, Lieut. Colonel Delgado Chalbaud was made provisional president at the head of a junta consisting of himself, Pérez Jiménez and Assistant Chief of Staff Luis Llovera Paez Secoc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENZUELA: The Old Army Game | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Before leaving for Bolivar, Harry Truman hacked away at the stack of 263 bills left him by Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bills & Barbs | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

After a night at the White House, and one at Blair House, Venezuela's Gallegos (along with 200 guests and newsmen) boarded Harry Truman's special train for Bolivar, Missouri. There, this week, with parades, pageantry and protestations of mutual esteem, the two Presidents were to unveil a seven-foot monument to South American Liberator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cherries & Monuments | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...government institution, a chain of these dining rooms feeds daily some 10,000 adults, 36,000 children. Cost of a meal: one bolivar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food for the Hungry | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Super State. Through the Panama conference in 1826 Bolivar had tried in vain to build a league against the despotism of the Old World. Sixty-three years later U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine headed the first modern Pan American conference in Washington, in hopes of building a hemispheric trade system based on a newly industrialized U.S. For all the oratory, nothing much happened until World War II turned the system into a virtual Good Neighbors' alliance. It had been Bogotá's job to make the wartime relationship permanent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Liberator's Dream | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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