Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even before the fiesta was over, the general had begun to indicate that a new austerity was in order for Chile. In a characteristically frosty radio address to the nation he said: "I assume the government of the republic in a state of near collapse . . ." By week's end, his ministers were talking of whacking the budget and freezing wages. The first job to which the general had pledged himself was to lower the cost of living; it was clear from Ibanez' opening words that deflation was already under...
...recalled in her newspaper column recently that Franklin Delano Roosevelt "used to say with amusement that he thought there were more Delanos in Chile than in the U.S. . . . One of his earliest sea-captain relatives once sailed into port in Chile, found the country at war, joined their navy and stayed to become a citizen." Best known of the dozen Delanos Mrs. Roosevelt met: Caricaturist Jorge ("Coke") Delano...
Except for the President's palace, the most famous address in Chile was once 49 Doce de Febrero, Santiago. Here was the center of Chile's intellectual life, the home of a slight, courtly figure known as "Don J.T." Until his death in 1930, Jose Toribio Medina reigned as Chile's cultural grandee, dispensing advice and talk to all who came to see him. Scholars and celebrities flocked to him, and it was even a tradition for foreign diplomats to pay their respects soon after they arrived in town...
Heading the group of U.S. officials who will attend the inauguration next week of Chile's President, General Carlos Ibafiez del Campo: Eleanor Roosevelt, who goes as special ambassador and chief of the American delegation...
...runners-up: Switzerland, 16 per 1,000 adults; Chile, 15; the U.S., 10; Australia, 6.7. Soberest of all: England...