Word: capehart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Victor Paz Estenssoro knew he would have his hands full one day last week. U.S. Senator Homer Capehart, chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, a man who might influence future U.S. aid to needy Bolivia, was due in La Paz on a study trip. And police intelligence agents reported that a plot to overthrow the government, long simmering and long spied on by the cops, had been moved up to coincide with Capehart's visit...
Falange Party attacked the President's suburban home. Forewarned, Paz Estenssoro had long since slipped off to the presidential palace. The rebels went on to seize a police station. "We heard lots of shooting," said Capehart. By 9 o'clock, armed members of the pro-government unions had put down the minor revolt in the capital; then word came that the main uprising was at Cochabamba, 140 miles away. Battle Reports. Neither Capehart nor Paz Estenssoro scares easily, and they had business to attend to. Punctually at 10 a.m., Capehart arrived to keep his appointment with the President...
President and the Senator talked about tin mining. Fresh reports disclosed that loyal forces were now fighting back strongly in Cochabamba. Capehart chewed on his cigar. Another telegram told how a boy on a bicycle had ridden, like a young Paul Revere, to the nearby town of Ucurena to alert the area's Indian farmers and tin miners to mobilize against the rebels. The President, the Senator and their aides calmly moved on to the U.S. embassy for a reception honoring Capehart. There, just after 1 p.m., messengers brought the victory report: "Cochabamba is ours...
...revolution cost Bolivia 23 dead, 42 injured-and one newspaper destroyed. After freeing Lechin, Cochabamba's irregulars had gone on to wreck the offices of the anti-government Los Tiempos. Paz Estenssoro jailed hundreds of rebels and his government announced it would try 723 persons for rebellion. Senator Capehart, having seen a genuine South American revolution at first hand, packed up his notes and moved on to Chile...
Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, presiding over a 122-man business advisory committee meeting on foreign-trade policy in Washington last week, nodded toward the heavy eyebrows and invited John L. Lewis to say a few words. John L. rose, surveyed the businessmen surrounding him, and talked for 30 minutes without pause. When he sat down, his audience gave him the heaviest applause of the afternoon. Reason: without ever mentioning the horrid word "tariff," Lewis had managed to roll together all the old demagogic arguments against free trade and give them a fine, patriotic ring...