Word: chile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard ski team, captained by William H. Hinton '41, is inaugurating a new season next Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock in Kirkland House Common Room. Movies of the 1936 Olympics and the Dartmouth ski team's trip to Chile will be shown through the courtesy of Ted Hunter, team member and Olympic skier. Alec Bright '19, founder of Harvard skiing, is expected to be there...
...professional politicians who have long aspired to the presidency. Smallish but strongly built Candidate Gustavo Ross, who made his millions as a stockmarket operator and now annoys Chileans by keeping most of his money safely abroad, was supported by the Liberal, Conservative and Agrarian parties. His potent backers were Chile's hacendados, the Agrarians. whose previous man had been President Alessandri...
Some 41% ( of the Chilean people make their living off the land, yet 60% of the arable ground is owned by fewer than 600 families. To the hacendados (landowners), Chile's ruling class, Candidate Ross is "the ablest financier on the continent" because, as Finance Minister under President Alessandri, he was able to hoist Chile from the World Depression and a private slump of her own without further burdening the huge land holdings...
...last moment Chile's ineffective Nacistas (Nazis), angered because their candidate was jailed as an "extremist'' after an abortive Nazi uprising month ago, spurned a logical tie-up with the rightist parties and threw in their lot with the Popular Front...
...strip of the western Chaco, the border drawn so that it keeps Paraguay 100 miles away from Bolivia's rich oil fields. Most notable Bolivian gain, however, is a gateway to the sea through the Paraguay River. Ever since the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), in which Chile defeated the combined Peruvian-Bolivian armies, Bolivia has sat in her Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Peru...