Word: chaco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congress, to help stop bloody war in the Chaco jungles, authorized the President to forbid shipment of U. S. arms and munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. President Roosevelt promptly proclaimed such an embargo, kept it in force until November 1935. Last January Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. and others were indicted for selling 15 machine guns to Bolivia during the embargo. In defense they argued that Congress had improperly delegated its power to the President. A Federal District judge in Brooklyn agreed with them, dismissed the indictment. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court...
...extraordinary" InterAmerican Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, and it was called for by extraordinary circumstances. Supposedly these circumstances were the "altogether favorable opportunity" resulting from the settlement of the bloody bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell...
...began at Montevideo three years ago when Secretary Hull showed him studied consideration, sent flowers to Senora Saavedra. It continued through the settlement of the Chaco dispute which Dr. Saavedra made entirely his own baby, even refusing election as President of the League of Nations Assembly to do so. Since Dr. Saavedra was adamant in rejecting all peace proposals which he did not originate, the U. S. delegate on the peace commission, Spruille Braden. carefully left the limelight to the distinguished Doctor. Again for the sake of his goodwill, the scene of the present conference was set at Buenos Aires...
...Among them: the Chaco, which is settled really only in so far as Bolivia and Paraguay have temporarily exhausted their economic resources; an ephemeral revolution in Ecuador, where a regiment last week revolted, set up their artillery on a hill and put a few shells into the Presidential Palace...
Died. Robert B. Delano, 22, son of Manhattan Capitalist Lyman Delano, cousin and onetime Harvard roommate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; by his own hand (shooting); on a plantation near Barranqueras, Argentine Chaco...