Word: latin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LATIN AMERICA...
Unquestionably the U. S. has lost a certain amount of prestige in Latin America through the failure of negotiations thus far. The U. S. position was sufficiently set forth by General Lassiter in his speech to the plebiscitary commission, released at Washington last week: "Flagrant as have been the outrages to which Peruvian electors and sympathizers have been subjected and pitiful as have been the sufferings of the helpless victims it it not these outrages themselves that in my opinion have constituted the most serious phase of the long continued course of violence, oppression, persecution and discrimination that "has marked...
...reproduce the phrases-but doubtless they rang on this note-of José Munoz-Cota, 19, of the National Preparatory School of Mexico (Mexico City) who last week vanquished representatives of five other districts of Mexico in an oratorical contest with a ten-minute oration on "Bolivar and Latin-American heroes." Other things that José must have referred to about Bolivar-things that made him not merely Bolivia's but Colombia's and Peru's and indeed all Latin-America's George Washington-Napoleon-Mussolini...
...appointing his own successor. Often accused, even by his friend and colleague Santander, of desiring absolute power for himself, he was sustained in perpetual office until his death (1830, aged 47) by the votes of his countrymen. He lavished nine-tenths of a fortune enormous for its day upon Latin American liberty, encouraged nationalism, arts, science. Few cities from Chile to Mexico are without his statue...
...General Pershing returned from a diplomatic mission to Chile on account of tooth-trouble (TIME, Jan. 11, LATIN AMERICA...