Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eastbound Atlantic liner and moaned the fate that had let her go to the U. S. and fail in a few miserably managed recitals. The lady, although it could not have been guessed by her thin, unshaped legs, was a dancer. The name she went by was La Argentina* and in Madrid she had long been a favorite. But the U. S.-bah! She closed her eyes and pretended to forget...
...value; 3) Details of the agreement were withheld, pending a formal and joint announcement by both Governments, but it was meagerly stated without explanation that the Argentine products to be bought by Britain would be "purchased through the usual channels," and that the British goods to be bought by Argentina would be "chiefly for railways and public works...
When the London announcement was cabled to Argentina, ferreting Buenos Aires reporters wormed out the further fact that the d'Abernon mission had arranged an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...
There was also a report that Lord d'Abernon had arranged for a $200,000,000 private British loan to the Argentine Government for road building purposes. Both La Prensa and equally famed La Nation were skeptical of the constitutional right of Argentina's fanatically secretive President Hipolito Irigoyen to sign rich, special agreements without consulting the Argentine Congress. "Even members of the President's Cabinet," said La Nation indignantly, "knew absolutely nothing of what was afoot...
Aside from the d'Abernon visit, the great event in Argentina, last week, was the end of a cataclysmic six-month drought. Both the flax and wheat crops were on the point of utter ruin. Grazing grass had withered and died. Ranchers had petitioned for Government aid to buy fodder and save their cattle...