Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidents of cocky little Uruguay, big Argentina and bigger Brazil have been exchanging goodwill visits for a year. Last fortnight Brazil's Getulio Dornelles Vargas called on Argentina's Agustin P. Justo (TIME, June 3). Last week Vargas went on to Montevideo, with his wife & daughter, to visit Uruguay's smart, stolid President Gabriel Terra, who runs a firm dictatorship over the most up-&-coming people in South America...
...Valparaiso, Chile last week half a ton of live lobsters were loaded on a plane, sent scudding across the jagged Andes to Argentina. The city of Buenos Aires, on the muddy River Plata where there are no lobsters, was having a party...
...occasion was the state visit of paunchy, pompous Senhor Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, to big, soldierly President Agustin P. Justo of Argentina. In 1933 President Justo paid a call on President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro which was notably successful in furthering trade and tourist traffic between the two countries. Now with suggestions from the Silver Jubilee in London, and a few original ideas of her own. Argentina was set to give her Brazilian neighbors a return welcome they would not soon forget...
...Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white for Argentina, the other yellow and green for Brazil...
Saturday was Argentina's Independence Day in memory of that May day in 1810 when crowds in Buenos Aires forced the resignation of the last Spanish viceroy and set up a native junta to govern the country. Presidents Justo & Vargas reviewed Brazilian cadets, aviators and most of the Argentine army from a stand in Congress Square. President Vargas was groggy on his feet and suffering from a bad cold but he kept bravely on with the celebration...