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Even Chile's courageous President Arturo Alessandri, "The Lion of Tarapaca," worried about body lice last week, bathed with unusual frequency and spurred Santiago health officials in their zealous efforts to stamp out a typhus epidemic...
After a delirious period that produced ten Chilean regimes in 17 months. Chile has had the same chief executive since December, compact, blue-eyed Arturo Alessandri, the "Lion of Tarapaca." There have lately been rumors that Lion Alessandri was slipping...
Each stirring announcement was followed by a hot denial from the country supposed to have been injured. Brazil, the big neutral adjacent to Leticia, sent a commission to investigate the only victory that seemed authentic: Colombia's capture from Peru of the town of Tarapaca, 100 mi. north of Leticia. Boasting of this victory, Colombians claimed that "80 Peruvian soldiers fled from Tarapaca into the jungle where they are starving. Every few days a famished Peruvian comes out of the jungle and begs permission to surrender...
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...
...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...