Word: peso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native Mexico more appreciatively. Particularly he cast a fresh eye on a primitive art that no one else seemed to care about. He journeyed into the Pacific Coast provinces west of Mexico City, and began picking up pieces of precious art for about a peso apiece...
Evasion Money. In Pittsburgh, Charles Williams paid for a cup of coffee with a Japanese 10-peso (Philippines-issue) note, was grabbed as he scrammed with $9.95 in change...
...helped frame the constitution. In explanation, he says: "I wanted to prevent a dictatorial government which would give the Japanese even greater power." Roxas thinks that he was the only member of the commission who never cashed the 10,000-peso check which the Japs sent as an honorarium. (He says the check was burned with other papers when his house was destroyed in the battle for Manila.) He was appointed to the cabinet of puppet President Jose Laurel, but did not attend its meetings. U.S. officers who stayed behind during the occupation give Manuel Roxas the highest rating. Said...
Nelson Rockefeller, whose father always told him to watch his dollars & cents, got a carefree feeling during the Mexico City Conference. Handed a 7,000 peso ($1,449) check for a diplomatic party he threw at Giro's, the Assistant Secretary of State,cracked: "Who do you think I am, Rockefeller...
...contract surprised diplomats, who had long written off landlocked Paraguay as the slave of Argentine's peso-diplomacy. An oil-rich Paraguay, in partnership with a non-political U.S. company, might thumb her nose at her big and bossy neighbor down the Paraná River...