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Compact, dynamic, blue-eyed "Lion" Arturo Alessandri, president in 1920-25, owes his nickname to his rich, deep voice, his leonine platform personality. Not a buccaneering South American dictator, he has just been constitutionally elected (TIME, Nov. 7). Also he wrote most of the Constitution, adopted in 1925 and since then trampled on by Chilean dictators galore. The inauguration of President Alessandri last week meant a return from Chilean chaos (which produced ten Chilean regimes in the past 18 months) to normal, civilian rule. But after such upheavals even a "normal" president must make concessions to the mob, especially since...
Putting the concession which he deems indispensable into one crisp sentence, President Alessandri said soon after his election: "Foreign companies in Chile which worked full time when returns were good must understand that they cannot consider discharging their Chilean employees now that times are bad!" Last week Chile's "Lion" made clear that this ultimatum stands. From a practical standpoint it has dominated for the past few months relations between such super-corporations as the Guggenheim nitrate colossus Cosach and the Chilean Government. Speaking off the record, Cosach President Whelpley is understood to have said recently: "If it were...
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...