Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight shabby sedans, each driven by a grim-faced man, each freighted with five pretty, nervous and very young women, dashed and slithered over the mountain road from Chile to Argentina, plowed with whining gears through deepening snow, finally bogged down in a great drift just beneath the towering statue of "The Christ of the Andes...
...even the Statue of Liberty is more famed among Latins. Thirty-one years ago Argentina and Chile renounced war in a spirit profoundly Christian, melted down hundreds of cannon to cast "The Christ of the Andes." Last week the huge figure, standing guard between two nations as their Prince of Peace, towered majestic and compassionate above the snow-bogged motorcade. With his left hand the Savior supports a cross taller than himself. The right hand is raised in benediction. Darkness came on as the drivers of the eight sedans jumped out and began vainly to shovel. Slowly the snow-whipped...
Even on zero nights Chilean policemen must patrol the pass beneath "The Christ of the Andes." Stabbing the dark with electric torches they discovered the stalled motorcade. The policemen did not ask to see passports, for passports are no longer needed between Argentina and Chile. But to find in eight shabby sedans eight shifty-eyed men and 40 young brides & seamstresses was a coincidence pointing to only one thing: the brothels of Buenos Aires...
Proud of their catch, the Chilean police boasted that it would lead to extermination of Argentina's renowned white slave ring, Zwi Migdal. Argentines were skeptical. The whole thing, they observed, is a matter of profits so huge that Zwi Migdal can well afford to pay bribes big enough to keep the traffic going. Not long ago a Franchucha testified that during her first week 402 men were shown into her room, paid not quite $3 each-or nearly...
...Personalista is a man once called "the most popular man in Argentina," grizzled old Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen who was 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...