Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dancers likewise performed. Mr. Hoover applauded vigorously, stayed late. Early Sunday morning President Irigoyen was at the red-carpeted pier to see his new friends off on the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan Campisteguy...
...advance emissary, to ask in the name of Uruguay that the Hoover's prolong their stay, was John D. Hoover, the President-Elect's first cousin, a native of Carlisle, Pa., who has ranched in Uruguay for 22 years...
...Behn's great design thus became obvious to the most casual observer. I. T. & T. cables stretch to the west coast of South America. Here they connect with the trans-Andean cable and telephone lines. And these lines in turn connect with the domestic telephone systems of Chile, Uruguay and now, Argentina. Thus a fast message may be relayed from New York to a house in the suburbs of Montevideo without once leaving I. T. & T. wires...
Pacifists were hopeful, since in the Gondra Convention of May, 3, 1923, signed between Bolivia and Paraguay, there was contained a procedure of conciliation designed to prevent war between them. There was actually in existence at the neutral capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, last week a conciliation commission as provided in the Gondra Convention, presided over by the Mexican Minister to Uruguay, Senor Fortunato Vega. Nonetheless, the position of the Bolivian Government as expounded by the newspaper El Norte was: "The sovereign Congress of Bolivia has never approved the Gondra Convention; and even if it had the convention tends to prevent...
...Finally Uruguay is a rich little melting pots of emigrants from the South American countries themselves. Last year she welcomed 6,000 Brazilians, 50,000 Argentines, and less than 30,000 Europeans...