Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moreover, he knew South America well. He had gone to Chile for Westinghouse Electric in 1920 and had represented U.S. business or government in South America almost ever since. He was the U.S. representative at the 1935-38 Chaco peace conference, later became U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and Cuba. As Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, his booming voice would now be heard everywhere south of the border...
Franklin Roosevelt made Hal Sevier Ambassador to Chile in 1933. But the Seviers' stay in Santiago was short. In four years Texas' rich daughter was divorced, back home, back in politics.. Into the abortive effort to make Jack Garner president she threw all her energy and, it was said, $250,000. After Brother Bob Jr. died in 1929, she ruled the family domain of oil fields and ranches all alone. When Hal Sevier died in 1940 she changed her name (to Mrs. Clara Driscoll) but not her fast, energetic pace...
...elements, including some conservatives. But strong within it was the long-outlawed Apra Party (Apristas),* which appeals to the Indian masses of Peru. One probable result of Bustamante's election would be a new deal for the Indians. General Ureta's defeat would be excellent news for Chile, Colombia and Ecuador, which have long worried about the aggressive designs of the bumptious Peruvian Army...
...From the Chile-Argentine border Cameraman Bill Larsen of R.K.O.-Pathe News writes that he reads TIME'S Air Express Edition on burro-back at 4,000 meters (13,000 feet to me) up in the Andes...
...dependence on justice had yet to take any positive, coherent form. ¶ | Power patterns, shaping up at the conference, foreshadowed the patterns of the world organization. A 14-nation executive committee included the Big Three, France and China, lesser members tied more or less to the U.S. (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Russia (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and Britain (Australia, Canada. New Zealand). Everyone saw that on the rock-bottom security issues of the future, virtually every small power would be tied to one of the Big Three. But on minor and intermediate issues, the smaller powers kept their independence...