Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weapons were different, his aims the same. A month and a half ago Argentina abruptly closed the Paraguayan frontier. The reason given: a yellow-fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come out for a Chile-Argentine customs union, and appointed its Foreign...
...Confirmed the nominations of Careermen 1) Joseph Flack as Ambassador to Bolivia, 2) J. Rives Child as Minister to Saudi Arabia, 3) Edwin F. Stanton as Minister to Siam...
...years before, Mussolini had marched on Corfu. The three-year-old League had been too timid to rebuke him, so France and Britain had elbowed it aside to push the aggressor out themselves. Paraguay and Bolivia had fought a three-year war over South America's Chaco without interference. And Japan had marched calmly into Manchuria and out of Geneva. "The League," said Delegate Matsuoka then, "has done an awful thing. ... It has attempted to elevate itself to a superstate. Is the world at this stage really prepared to accept...
President Truman sent a message to Savannah calling on the delegates to "breathe life" into the infant organizations. But monetary experts are not notably lively or gregarious. Spanish-speaking Negro bellboy Ben White introduced the lonely first-comer, Bolivia's Dr. Franklin Antezana Paz, to the lonely second-comer, Arturo Maschke Tornero of Chile. The two Latins warmly embraced. Latin American delegations were soon buzzing that they, as much as the war-scarred nations of Europe, expect a good slice of Bank funds for industrial development...
...career as president of Oklahoma's constitutional convention, speaker of its first state legislature. Congressman in Washington, D.C.. successful lawyer in Indian territory, where he married the niece of a Chickasaw governor, negotiator of Indian treaties, colonist in South America (he headed a colony in Bolivia), governor (1931-35) of Oklahoma...