Word: chile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Within one month-it can safely be predicted-there will be no unemployment in Chile...
Such was the biggest, best & boldest promise made last week by small, dapper Don Carlos Guillermo Davila whose recent coup d'ètat set up Chile's new Government (TIME, June...
...back this airy promise with something solid for jobless men to chew on, Don Carlos ordered a half-million free meals served daily by the Government to Chile's unemployed. State pawnshops obeyed an order to return gratis sewing machines and all tools pawned by the "certified unemployed." Joyous crowds soon flocked around every pawnshop, roared "Viva Davila...
...words partly borrowed from Abraham Lincoln, Chile's new President declared: "We have the absolute, full cooperation of the great mass of the people who want to see in this country a Government of the people, for the people and by the people...
...apathetic to Counsel Gray's inquisition had the Senators become that next day only Senators Norbeck & Townsend listened to further Anaconda revelations from Chairman John D. Ryan. With Harry Frank Guggenheim, he had acquired blocks of Chile Copper and other copper companies before they were absorbed by Anaconda through an exchange of stock. At one time Chairman Ryan said he had a profit of $1,250,000 on his Chile operation, but the Anaconda received in exchange now showed him a large loss. Smart Harry Guggenheim sold out, made $404,000. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda, no witness, interrupted...