Word: pati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
...shrewd Tin Baron Patiño did not let diplomatic frippery interfere with business. When the world depression of the 1930s set off a tin crisis, he helped form a cartel with British and Dutch producers. Together, they held prices firm...
...automobile (bearings) made Tin Baron Patio one of the world's five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...members of the junta have a record of past employment with tin barons Simón Patiño and Mauricio Hochschild. There are leftists in the junta too, but no known Communists. Offstage, among the tough Indian miners, there are powerful leftist forces. Now they may go over to scholarly José Antonio Arze who is marshaling his P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) for position. But he is torn between desire for power and fear that, once in command, his Socialist program might fail. Marxist Arze, who says he is no Communist, well knows that Bolivian Socialists can never nationalize...
...Retorted Patiño: "How does it feel to be so poor...