Word: alvear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's cousin who was Minister to Canada. Besides all these there are a working staff from the State Department, the U. S. Ambassador to Argentina and the U. S. Minister to Bolivia. The entire delegation occupies two floors of Argentina's most fashionable hotel, the Alvear Palace, on the famous Avenida Alvear, a block from Avenida Callao. Many of the rooms have been converted into clattering clerical offices to handle the official doings of the group, whose direction rests chiefly with Secretary Hull and Assistant Sumner Welles...
...twice President (1916-22 and 1928-30), being overthrown in the middle of his second term by a military coup d'etat (TIME, Sept. 15, 1930). Between Dr. Irigoyen's first and second terms Argentina's President was his loyal henchman. Dr. Marcello T. de Alvear. Last week the Justo Government seized Dr. Irigoyen and Dr. de Alvear before anything was proved against them, rushed them aboard the despatch boat Golondrina and instructed it to make for Martin Garcia Island up the river from Buenos Aires. On this island President Irigoyen was interned after the coup...