Word: paz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-walled adobe jail of La Paz last week languished Mauricio Hochschild, probably the biggest mining mag nate in South America. Arrested as instigator of a plot against Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, May 8), he was lucky to be alive. The Villarroel Government had thought of shooting him, then thought again when it pondered his connections, his influence, his hold on Bolivia. Instead of killing him, his captors handled him with the special care due such a special person...
...economy. The 65,000 ragged, sickly miners average about 60? a day, live on the edge of starvation. In December 1943, a revolt of social-minded intellectuals allied with young Army officers attacked tin-company control by driving President Enrique Peñaranda into exile. The people of La Paz ran cheering through the streets, wrecked the office of Aramayo Co., stoned the U.S. Embassy...
...Rolls Royce popped a peppery dowager. She crossed the sidewalk to the sedate five:story pile, a block from Government House in Buenos Aires. Two policemen, instead of the usual two liveried flunkeys, stood in the high-arched doorway. Head high, shoulders back, Doňa Zelmira Paz de Anchorena turned, walked stiffly back to her limousine. She had come to see with her own eyes what she and many another Argentine had believed impossible: La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, had been forced to close for the first time in its 74 years...
Five days later La Prensa's Director Alberto Gainza Paz, handsome nephew of Don Ezequiel and Doňa Zelmira, met the Government's price for lifting the suspension: it printed the Farrell regime's defense of its economies (one item: rats had been exterminated, thus saving the cost of feeding them to prevent their nibbling at hospital records...
...Argentines know that she is co-owner, with her ailing, 73-year-old brother, Don Ezequiel Pedro Paz...