Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolsheviks by 1938, are international capitalists in 1940. Of that once fabulous and proverbially sinister tribe, a seam-faced, 75-year-old survivor arrived with wife and family in Manhattan last week. He was Tin King Simon Ituri Patino. For many years Sefior Patino has run Bolivian politics from Paris, married his daughters to French and Spanish nobility, enjoyed extraterritoriality (and freedom from income taxes) as Bolivia's Minister to France. For several months he has been appearing and disappearing in the U. S. tin picture, uncertain where to settle. Last week, he settled in a six-room suite...
...business just as the mines of Saxony, Bohemia and Cornwall began to run out. By 1910 he was selling to Europe on a big scale. By 1912 he had $2,000,000 to buy more mines. By 1924 he owned much more than half the swollen Bolivian output, was known in half a dozen capitals as a bon viveur, was called the "richest man in the world...
...Bolivian Air Base...
...Bolivian Ministry of Interior reasserted the freedom of the press in answer to Nazi demands for muzzling the anti-Fascist La Razon. "We will not tolerate the inexplicable Nazi attitude," La Razon shouted defiantly...
There will be two courses in Latin-American politics, given by Assistant Professor Enrique S. De Lozada, of Williams College, formerly First Secretary of the Bolivian Embassy, in Washington. The course titles will be: "New Factors in International Relations: Latin America"; and "Current Trends in Latin-American Governmental Policies...