Word: busches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court was jurisdictional labor strikes, used by unions chiefly as a means of keeping monopolistic controls. The problem was posed in the Carpenters' case, where the A. F. of L. Carpenters union, controlled by hulking, button-eyed "Big Bill" Hutcheson, struck against the St. Louis brewers, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., in an attempt to force the company to turn over to the carpenters the millwright work already being done under A. F. of L. contract by the Machinists union...
Since the murder last year of Bolivia's dictator Colonel German Busch, who tried to nationalize tin exports, Bolivia's freelance politicos have followed the Patino formula of playing off the U. S. against Germany. They have made it a three-cushion game by also intriguing with the British, who, to preserve their profitable smelting monopoly, would rather not see Bolivian ore go direct to the U. S. But while Patino was in Spain, his old enemy and the No. 2 Bolivian tin miner, Mauricio Hochschild, took sides. Hochschild went to the U. S. last winter, contracted with...
...German Busch with the help of the Army proclaimed himself President of Bolivia. His most noteworthy act was to decree that all Bolivia's tin had to be marketed through the State bank. Few months later curly-haired President Busch, 35, acted even more dramatically. He gave a birthday party for his beloved Japanese brother-in-law and at the height of festivities was found dead, "officially" by his own hand. Last month Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since 1931 to elect a President and chose the Army's choice-General Enrique...