Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glancing out of the window of his office in pillared, grey Moneda Palace, Santiago's White House, Pedro Aguirre Cerda can look across the Calle Morande to the scene of the massacre that made him President of Chile. On Sept. 5, 1938, the Nacista Party of an ineffectual little Hitler named Jorge González von Marées tried to stage a Putsch in behalf of onetime President General Carlos Ibañez del Campo. In the course of the proceedings 60 Nacista youths and a couple of innocent insurance salesmen who had barricaded themselves in the Caja...
Trouble on a Flat Car. One bill granted amnesty to political offenders. Congress overrode President Aguirre's veto, and back to Chile went one firebrand whom Don Tinto would have loved to keep in exile: onetime President Ibañez, who made his return in state, sitting in his automobile on a flat car of a freight train. On his way back was another: General Ariosto Herrera, leader of the Movimiento Nadonalista, a Nazified party which made another unsuccessful Putsch...
...Adolf Hitler, Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile curiously sent a May Day posy of greetings-"best wishes for your personal happiness...
...Compulsory vaccination* has wiped out smallpox in Chile. Diphtheria has likewise been practically eliminated. Insanity is not common. Greatest health problem in Chile is a high infant-mortality rate. According to Dr. Cruz Coke, the trouble is not the medical care in hospitals but the conditions in the home, because of low standards of living...
...present, Chile spends about 280,000,000 pesos a year on medical care. At least one-third of this total is spent in treating the early stages of tuberculosis, syphilis, diseases of the heart and circulatory system. By stressing prevention rather than treatment, Dr. Cruz Coke claims that the "health yield" of a given amount of money is increased five or six times. Said he: "The State must spend money not primarily to give a man who is ill more felicity, but to produce a healthy worker...