Word: chile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision on Monday to wash its trembling hands of the Chaco affair and drop the bowling brat on the doorway of Argentine and Chile, the League cast before it the shadow of its inevitable conduct in this new crisis. It is faintly humorous that Baros Pompeo Aloisi should be the one to express on behalf of Europe boisterous applause at the policy of leaving American affairs in the hands of Americans. In a similar mood the League's reluctance to meddle in the private lives of her friends in Asia has already formed a none too bright chapter of world...
...single Council member, even remote Chile or puny Denmark which is almost under Adolf Hitler's thumb, could be found to approve Germany's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, then the Council could not so much as rebuke Germany, for the Council can act only by unanimity...
Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, who gets his biography into one column and one line of Who's Who only by the device of listing decorations from twelve foreign countries "and so forth," honorary degrees from 20 universities "and many others," announced that Chile had made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit; that Cuba had given him the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Finlay and Greece the Cross of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Saviour; that the University of Edinburgh had promised him an LL. D. in June...
...last triumphant gasp, C. & H. made 90,000,000 lb. of copper. The rest is drabness. The 100,000,000 tons of ore remaining among the lava flows probably average no more than 1% copper. To the West are bigger companies with richer ores. And Canada, Chile and South Africa, with huge 3% and 4% ore-bodies close to the surface, are waiting for tariff walls to crack...
...plenty of endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...