Word: saavedras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twice as large in area as Texas and has about the population of Chicago; but last week this sovereign state was troubled by the destruction of its entire merchant marine. The destruction was trivial in its way, because the Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia slowly began to take water last week from an unrevealed cause, then sank. Bolivians are vexed because their country has no seaport, being completely surrounded...
There lived in Spain toward the end of the 16th Century a certain Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, soldier of fortune retired to devote himself to literature, who, weary of the frothy, extravagant romances that had so long been the vogue in Spain, set himself to mock his scribbling brothers with a tale more fantastic than any that had been written. A great satirist, Cervantes?a greater poet. He took for his hero a knight as mad as the northwind, put him through incredible paces, made him withal so real, so courageous, so pathetic, so magnificent that not for three centuries...
Simultaneously the younger members of Saavedra's army became boisterous. They suggested to Saavedra that a suitable candidate for President at the special elections in December would be Senor Hernando Siles, a diplomat. So tense was the situation that Saavedra did an unprecedented thing- he took the suggestion. Senor Siles will be President. And then Saavedra took another suggestion- he withdrew his brother's candidacy for Vice President...
...many suggestions can a Tyrant take and still be Tyrant? And what would Bolivia be without its Saavedra? Thus politics, in the inland country...
...Previous reports of Saavedra and his doings were published in TIME, Sept. 7, Sept...