Saavedra Lamas
Americannoun
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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.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2016
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.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2015
Nothing could have surprised Minister Saavedra Lamas more than what happened next.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was solved by that most arrogantly graceful of old school diplomats, Foreign Minister Dr. Saavedra Lamas of Argentina, who converses in such formal, rounded periods that he always appears to be reading an oration.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Saavedra Lamas remembered that there still exists in Washington a moribund whatnot called the Inter-American High Commission, created by the First Pan-American Financial Conference in 1915.
From Time Magazine Archive
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