Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief upshot of the long-drawn war for the steamy Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
Thoroughly tired of his company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...
Right is onetime Reporter Cole's recollection. On Jan. 11, 1927 an Italian named Jose Mario Barone left Rio de Janeiro with a companion in a 1922 Studebaker touring car which had already gone 124,000 miles, drove to Buenos Aires, hacked his way north through the Bolivian jungle, crossed the Isthmus, reached New York City March 1. 1929. The 20,000-mile trip was largely financed by giving exhibition "Leaps of Death" in the car. Barone's first companion was killed in a race soon after their start. His second, picked up en route, died of jungle...
...bloody, exhausting, three-year Gran Chaco War ended eleven months ago. The victorious Paraguayan officers led by War Hero Colonel Rafael Franco seized the Paraguayan Government last February (TIME, March 2). Last week the losing Bolivian officers, led by Lieut. Colonel German Busch, seized the Bolivian Government in La Paz without firing a shot, kicked out the Army stooge they had put in six months before the War ended, pacific, beet-nosed President José Luis Tejada Sorzana...
...Bolivian officers, with Bolivia's three Socialist parties, picked for President War Hero Colonel David Toro who was still in the Gran Chaco with his Bolivian garrison. Manifestoed Lieut. Colonel Busch: "The Chaco campaign brought to light the shakiness of the Bolivian State. . . . Most of the humble were required to give their services and sacrifices on the altar of the Fatherland while others-powerful, but very few in number-concentrated in their hands the great fortunes formed by exploiting the natural resources of the country. Nothing in this irritating condition of inequality, however, has nullified the sacrifice of thousands...