Word: alcorta
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...Antonio Cabinetmaker Alvaro Alcorta was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. At the trial, Alcorta vainly claimed that he had come upon his wife and one Natividad Castilleja kissing in a car; Alcorta admitted that he then stabbed his wife to death in a fit of passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja...
...most distinguished Argentine jurists, Dr. Carlos Alberto Alcorta and Dr. Luis Podesta Costa, tried repeatedly and even frenziedly, last week, to obtain an audience with the new, silent and seclusive President of Argentina, Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen...
They could obtain no instructions. The President would not receive them. When they called repeatedly at the Foreign Office, the Minister was always in conference. Therefore, last week, Delegates Alcorta and Costa mailed their resignations. Officially there was no explanation. Perhaps President-elect Hoover will ask President Irigoyen...