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Those who peopled the two worlds had little in common. The porteños (people of the port) were accustomed of an evening to squeeze themselves into giant teahouses and chrome-and-glass movie palaces. The peón of the "camp," working for his keep and a little more on the great estancias, found few with whom to gather; even his rooster crowed only twice, because there was no answer...
Batista lost the election, but the Communists won a strategic advantage. With three seats in the Senate, they held the balance of power. Under their crack-voiced mulatto leader, Lázaro Peña, they were in a position, to put a demolition charge under the President whenever they chose to. Grau paid for their support with wage increases, other favors, of which the most dazzling was the Workers' Palace...
...company town. Tin mining supplies 70-90% of Bolivian 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...
...First clause of the Atlantic Charter in Interglossa: U President de United States syn duco Commissari-pe, Mr. Churchill, ge electio e regi Crati de United Kingdom, pre acte unio. In English: "The President of the United States and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill representing H.M. Government in the United Kingdom, being met together. . . ." *A Loom example of German word order: "These by Th. Nöldeke, History of the Koran, Göttingen, 1860, for the first time put forward basic views on the language of the Koran are in K. Voller's Spoken and Written Language...
...visible Army support for a counterrevolution, although an attempt at one was possible. Other attempts might be inspired by ex-President David Toro, reportedly in Washington, or by deposed President Peñaranda, who issued a die-hard statement from Tacna, Peru...