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...witness was a onetime stool pigeon of the police vice squad-a loose-lipped little South American called Chile Mapocha Acuna La-tore, onetime waiter at Washington's Congressional Country Club. Lounging in the witness chair, this individual made a series of rank revelations about his services to the police department.* Informer Latore said he had participated in several hundred "frame-up" and "shake-down" arrests of women. The method: he would seek out and compromise a woman, wait for the police to arrive. If she were willing to bribe the officers, Latore got a split...
...view of the recent revolutions in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, a course in the political history of the Latin American republics in the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries is especially important for an understanding of their background. While an intimate acquaintance with all of the periodical upheavals in some twenty states is not very interesting for the general student, the religious and agrarian policy of the Mexican government, the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, and commercial relations with South and Central America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years...
...provisional President, Getulio Vargas, No. i revolutionist (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.}. In these circumstances there was no swearing in but a five-minute ceremony: Dr. Vargas signed a paper declaring that he is President. Nations which recognized him three days later: Italy, Portugal (Brazilians speak Portuguese), Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay. Two more days passed before the U. S. and Great Britain recognized Revolutionist Vargas almost simultaneously (see p. 16). France followed a day later. The New Cabinet is considered "strong." Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco used to represent Brazil at League of Nations meetings, is the Brazilian...
...father's metal projects was Daniel. Early he went to Pueblo, dinky distributing town of the southern Colorado Rockies, to plunge the first Guggenheim money into copper. Eventually the Guggenheims held chief influence in three of the world's greatest copper combines, in the nitrate industry of Chile, in the diamond fields of the Belgian Congo. Recently Daniel Guggenheim resigned from association with 14 great corporations...
Dictator Ibanez's definition of an "habitual drunkard": one whom the duly constituted courts of Chile shall have convicted of being drunk five times in six months or eleven times within the space of one year...