Saavedra Lamas

[sah-ah-ve-thrah lah-mahs]

noun

1. Carlos 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.

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Scientists are not the only one to break $1 million: The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded in 1936 to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, a former foreign minister of Argentina, sold for $1.1 million in 2014.

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The 1936 peace prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, the Argentine finance minister who convinced his country to join the League of Nations, sold for $1.16 million.

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It had been awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, foreign minister of Argentina, for his part in ending the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and for his work on a South American antiwar pact signed in 1933.

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"The great Republic of the North," cried Dr. Saavedra Lamas, "is a magnificent spectacle of human progress, continues to be in the contemporary world a creation that has never been surpassed in its political genius!"

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While still acting as Foreign Minister, Dr. Saavedra Lamas expects soon to retire.

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