Word: alessandri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight years ago President Arturo Alessandri had to flee from Chile to Argentina, managed to do so in a special train flying the U. S. flag. Fortnight ago Chileans again elected him President (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week Santiago police had to fire machine gun bullets over the heads of a mob which wished to reject President-Elect Alessandri and raised deafening cheers for the defeated candidate, part-Irish Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced Gro-vay). With all Chile tense, wondering whether Col. Grove would try a coup d'état (as he has several times before) the world...
Candidate of the Radical Party was Arturo Alessandri, 64, who had been President of Chile from 1920-24 until overthrown by a coup d'etat under a General Altamirano. He won by an enormous margin. Snarled defeated Colonel Grove: "I have returned to win now-or later" (presumably by attempting another coup d'etat...
...opposing candidates were Arturo Alessnndri, a former President of Chile and Manuel Hidalgo, Communist. Chilean hard times were expected to bring Communist Hidalgo many votes, but his rumored connection with the ineffectual Chilean naval mutiny lost him much popular sympathy. Candidate Alessandri had put through (when President) Chile's broad labor laws, workmen nocked...