Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only Bolivian bond issue in 1926 or 1927 which newsmen could uncover was a $14,000,000 issue of 7% gold bonds offered by Dillon, Read & Co. at 98½. A member of the firm then: James V. Forrestal now Under Secretary of the Navy...
...propaganda was also embarrassing to Joseph C. Rovensky, No. 2 man of the Rockefeller Committee, who will soon resign to return to his old job as a Chase Bank vice president. Fortnight ago Rovensky suggested the huge dollar balances in Latin America be used to redeem defaulted bonds. The Bolivian loan has been in default since 1931. Financiers pointed to that fact as justification for the 7% rate...
...Where will she fight?" they asked. But in the neighboring capitals of Peru and Chile there was a certain uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes...
...Commission was impressed wherever it went with the total absence of free association [among workers] and collective bargaining. ..." For this condition the Commission blamed Bolivian authorities and many Bolivian employers...
...diet of the average Bolivian worker falls far below the standards commonly considered necessary for good health...