Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nitrate plain which is Chile and so aboard the Maryland in the harbor of Antofagasta. Mr. & Mrs. Hoover lunched them all on the quarterdeck. In his speech, Mr. Hoover stated that the history of Bolivia and its hero, Simon Bolivar, are as familiar to U. S. schoolchildren as to Bolivian schoolchildren...
...diplomats can make a war was shown last week after Bolivian and Paraguayan troops had exchanged shots across a wild, densely forested area which both countries have claimed for over a century...
...Bolivia's fetching and carrying, are sunk in degraded peonage. The small ruling class of Spanish descent has but one callous, inevitable aim-to keep the Indians down. Last year some 50,000 peons, many half starved, attempted a desperate revolt. They were quelled by the bayonet. Official Bolivian despatches described the uprising as "Communistic...
...further pious interjection was made by Chief Bolivian Delegate Jose Antezana who plaintively remarked that his country has no outlet to the sea, but did not quite dare to propose that she be given one through Tacna-Arica, that notorious region so immemorially in dispute between Chile and Peru (TIME...
...Since, according to Bolivian law, only one person can be executed for a murder, a lottery was held to decide which of four convicted prisoners should die for the crime...