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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restless Army, set up a system of espionage. Under him ex-Cadet Busch rose fast, became adjutant to Kundt, then Chief of the General Staff, was aide to Ernst Roehm when that luckless Nazi spent two years in Bolivia after a quarrel with Adolf Hitler. Germán Busch was a second lieutenant of 24 when the Chaco War began, a captain at 28, major at 29, lieut. colonel before the war ended, chief of staff soon afterward. Meanwhile he married, fathered three sons, was cited for his daring raids; his rescue of a division won him Bolivia...
Rising fast in these tough times was a tough, nervous, roving-eyed, brown-haired young spy named Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and a Bolivian mother. He grew up in the section where Germán Busch was born, not far from most of Standard Oil's Bolivian fields. Dionisio Foianini studied pharmacy in Italy, returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded...
When Lieut. Colonel Busch grabbed power two years ago, grabby Señor Foianini went along, became last year Minister of Mines and Petroleum in Germán Busch's Cabinet. First Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from...
...days after his coup Dictator Germán Busch solemnly denied that his regime was totalitarian. His secretary cabled U. S. mining men that elections would be held soon...
From the early days of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. of America Incorpulated, through this winter's Harlem World's Fair, unfailing inventiveness has maintained radio's Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin...