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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...
...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...
When Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
Moving Day. While the younger Patiño was in trouble for his peripatetic marital habits, the older Patiño picked up his traveling kit for reasons, said rumor, connected with the hue & cry over the untaxed profits of nonresident aliens in the U.S. Father Simon Ituri Patiño forsook his modest suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the rigors of the low-taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey...
...Retorted Patiño: "How does it feel to be so poor...