Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guffey, leveled a bazooka at the literary naivete of Freshman Butler. Delightedly Joe Guffey read to the Senate from Butler's report: "Mexico is a land of beautiful mountains.. ."; of El Salvador, "this little country is picturesque"; of Colombia, "it is full of mountains"; of Chile, it is "long and narrow."Said Senator Guffey drily: "[These observations] show him to be a man of singular powers of observation...
...efforts failing, Argentina signed her own treaty with Paraguay, giving trade and financial concessions never dreamed of before. Simultaneously she redoubled her frantic efforts to entice neighbor Chile into her "free-trade area," offering a subway for Santiago, a tunnel under the Andes and other pleasant things. The Chilean leftist press described it as another attempt by Argentina to escape from isolation...
Three weeks ago, at the Inter-American Students Conference in Santiago, Chile, the Argentine students had repudiated the Ramirez regime, called for a break with Germany. Last week they went on strike against the Government's dismissal of university professors who had signed a Pan-American solidarity manifesto. The movement rapidly spread to all but one of Argentina's six universities, included 80% of the nation's students. They ran Ramirez' policemen ragged...
...their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While news flashes mistakenly identified the dead man as Ernesto, radio stations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina went off the air for periods of silence in his honor...
...Santiago, Chile, 250 of these young men were gathered last week for an Inter-American Students Congress. What they said and did furnished the best picture in years of the thoughts of Latin American youth...