Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argentina soccer is known as futbol. Every autumn Sunday 18 major league teams play it in stadia throughout Buenos Aires. Every Sunday Argentine fans reach a fine pitch of emotion. Last week, as Argentine's autumn got under way, Sunday crowds saw many a fine futbol game. At one a River Plate player assaulted and broke the jaw of an opponent. He was held for trial on $5,000 bail. Another was arrested for kicking his opponent in the stomach. Exhilarated, the crowd began to throw rocks at the players. Some took out revolvers and fired furiously into...
...name as a smart, respectable politician by vigorously backing public works: rural free schools, roads, harbors, airports, fertilizer factories, hydro-electric plants. He put through Uruguay's high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after his 1930 election he toured inland Uruguay, speaking out for a change in the Constitution, offering to resign the Presidency to hasten reform. Then he favored Switzerland's commission form of government or a chief executive with a Cabinet elected...
...Argentina. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela...
...Cruz Alta, Argentina, Ricardo Pignon, 5, his head filled with tales of kidnappers, heard a tax collector demand money from his grandfather, shot the collector dead...
Orchids grow from Alaska to Argentina in the Western Hemisphere. The best are hardest to find, in the jungled Casanare and San Martin regions of Colombia and Peru. A good man to find them was Swedish-born John Emil Lager, until the U. S. put an embargo on orchids in 1919 because they carry insects. From 1890 until 1908 he ranged South America for the wild strange blooms from which he has grown rare progeny ever since-huge single flowers for debutantes, dowagers and prima donnas; smaller ones for fancy gentlemen; orchids in long sprays, in tiny spidery spikes, some...