Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chilean-born, Spanish-titled George de Cuevas, eighth Marques de Piedraolanca de Guana, grandson-in-law of the late John D. Rockefeller Sr., renounced his title, became a U. S. citizen at Toms River...
...American Republics met in Havana last week to face the transoceanic threat of fascism, the struggle of democracy v. fascism was already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard -former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt...
...that ever since the Loyalist Government collapsed in Spain, Chile's Embassy in Madrid has given sanctuary to 13 Spanish Loyalists and refused to surrender them. A counter irritant was that poverty-stricken Franco has refused to pay for 100,000,000 pesos ($3,500,000) worth of Chilean nitrate and iodine...
...Brazil's present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years and many things must happen before South America can hope to find a sufficient market in the U. S. During those years, Chilean copper must compete in the markets of the world with U. S. copper, Argentine wheat with U. S. wheat, Latin American oil with U. S. oil. If Hitler commands Europe, South America must turn to him for markets. His propagandists are already pointing this...
Last February, when Chilean Arturo Godoy, a punchinello without a punch, lasted 15 rounds against Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, most fight fans were less surprised than disgusted by the challenger's tactics of crawling around out of harm's way. Last week, in New York City's Yankee Stadium, Joe Louis faced the Chilean again in what Broadway wags called the "Second Battle of Squat...