Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretly joined a group of wealthy and aristocratic brother officers, all bent on revolution, at the Campo de Mayo barracks. By dawn their troops were on the march. Ahead of the columns flew battle planes, zooming and thundering over Buenos Aires, raining down leaflets. One plane dived low over Argentina's Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), peppering the Executive Mansion with machine gun bullets. Frantic crowds snatched the bulletins with joy, read an exhortation to "rise" signed "Military Junta." They rose...
Within ten minutes the formal resignation was in General Uriburu's khaki pocket. Within 30 minutes Argentina's "Pink House" was overrun by a merry mob. Portraits of Dr. Irigoyen were hurled from the windows, burned. Two busts of him were dragged forth, one decapitated, the other paraded through the streets in a coffin with the placard: "He's finished...
...Argentina's secret ballot was the first great reform fought for and won by Dr. Irigoyen a generation ago. It destroyed the monetary control of the "Lords of the Pampas" over elections, led directly to El Hombre's first triumphal election as President...
Washington v. London. In Washington the President and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson were officially "shocked" by Argentina's revolution but not even officially grieved. As one official frankly said, "Dr. Irigoyen's fall has eliminated the outstanding menace to the prestige of the United States in Latin America...
Epidemic of Revolutions? What did worry Washington last week, was the fact that Argentina's is the third and biggest South American revolution since early summer. Bolivia popped first (TIME, July 7), then Peru (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), while earlier in the year threatened revolutions forced a peaceful but sudden change of presidents in the Dominican Republic (TIME, March 10) and later Haiti (TIME, March...