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...inscribed: "The ABC will mete out this death to all long-tongued persons." Long-tongued Cepero's crime had been to shout a warning to Chief of Police Major Arsenic Ortiz (who got his present job after being accused with two others of 44 political murders in Santiago) when three young men were attempting to assassinate him. Chief Ortiz chased them up an alley in his own car, shot all three...
Whether or not they can operate at a profit, U. S. firms which have $714,000,000 invested in Chile must continue to operate their Chilean plants during 1933 or face confiscatory measures. Such was the situation at Santiago last week when Congress formally proclaimed that "The Lion of Tarapaca" is again president of Chile...
Thus far relations between "Lion" Alessandri and such grumbling but resigned U. S. corporations as Cosach have been notably smoothed by U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson who lately flew from Santiago to Washington to give the State Department pointers on the incoming Chilean regime. In Santiago, to which Mr. Culbertson will soon fly back, U. S. residents give him credit for establishing in three parts of the Capital strategic bases stocked with food and other useful things to which members of the U. S. colony could have fled and taken refuge had the series of Chilean revolutions grown...
Gossip of the week in Santiago concerned shrewd, rich Gustavo Ross, picked by President Alessandri to be Finance Minister in the new regime. Reputed to have been a "bear" speculator when the Chilean peso was falling. Don Gustavo is in bad odor. He owes his Finance Ministry, say scandal mongering Santiagans, to a strategic investment made eight years ago when enemies of the "Lion of Tarapaca" chased Senor Alessandri out of Chile and left him with exactly...
...itinerant U. S. polo squad of Winston Guest, Michael Phipps, James Mills, J. C. Rathborne and Hubert Phipps: the championship of Chile; 2 games out of 3 at Santiago...