Word: alessandris
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...nine harassed politicos who have been President of hectic Chile since 1929 have had no time for dams?not even for South America's biggest. Last week it was inaugurated not by that suave old diplomat and champion Chilean wangler. President Arturo Alessandri but by his hard-driving Minister of Agriculture, Don Matias Silva...
Chief Ineleu felt that he was ready to die but Chilean law commands that the dead be buried in authorized municipal cemeteries. By a kinsman he sent a message to Chile's blue-eyed President Arturo Alessandri. Spoke he with grave dignity: "I am the last of the Mapuche warrior chiefs and I have served you well. It is not right that my aged bones should be laid to rest among Christians. They belong in the place called Auquell near Cunco in the province of Cautin...
Even Chile's courageous President Arturo Alessandri, "The Lion of Tarapaca," worried about body lice last week, bathed with unusual frequency and spurred Santiago health officials in their zealous efforts to stamp out a typhus epidemic...
Fortunately the Chilean epidemic is typhus of a type milder than the type that sometimes scourges Europe. Over 100 Santiagoans had died last week, but hundreds were recovering when Valparaiso, chief port of Chile, clamored for protection. President Alessandri's typhus fight ers established delousing stations on all roads leading out of the capital under a presidential decree declaring a state of siege. At these barriers simple pedestrians and their clothing were thoroughly disinfected, not without loud protests. Wealthier Santiagoans passed through on certificates issued by their doctors...
...Chileans knew that a secret Fascist Chilean organization existed whose purpose was to uphold the Republican regime of President Alessandri. Even members of the individual cells did not know its full strength. Last week they were out in the open, in uniform, pounding down Santiago's broad Boulevard Alameda from the Jockey Club to the Plaza de Armas. Chileans grew round-eyed as they passed, line after line, 10,000 strong, to the music of 24 bands. Most of the units wore blue overalls with overseas caps and belts, country regiments were in khaki or grey. None bore arms...