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Bolivia's politics are run from La Paz, the world's highest capital (12,000 ft.) where the climate is always about the same as Norway's spring and the hot little Chaco war is very remote and unpopular. The Liberal Party runs the cities and opposes the war; the Genuine Republican Party holds the countrymen of the hot lowlands and wants war to the finish. Genuine Republicans made Invalid Daniel Salamanca President while the Liberal bosses were electing a man of their own vice president, a beet-nosed banker named José Luis Tejada Sorzano. Last...
...think only of firing his commander-in-chief. He set out for the Chaco front to do so but his intentions went ahead of him. Vice President Tejada had been on the wires. When Salamanca arrived, the army officers politely asked for and got his resignation. Back in La Paz Tejada had already made himself President, claiming that Salamanca had deserted. There was no doubt that Bolivia's new President Tejada was in favor of "an honorable peace...
Last week the fingers of La Prensa's acting publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, itched to push the siren button. There was much to celebrate. Not only was it Nueve de Julio, Argentina's Independence Day, but potent old La Prensa was formally inaugurating a new $3,000,000 printing plant, finest in South America. Its holiday edition ran to 725,000 copies- 150,000 more than its previous record...
Completion of the new plant marked the almost complete retirement of La Prensa's publisher and principal owner, Don Ezequiel P. Paz. Son of the late Dr. José C. Paz, who turned out the first copy of La Prensa 65 years ago on a tiny hand press, Don Ezequiel started to work around the shop as a youngster in 1896, took full charge while still a young man. He devoted his life completely to his newspaper, spent nearly all his waking hours in his incredibly ornate office, denied himself to practically all callers except his editors. Past...
...they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...