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...suggestion of widening influence accompanies the announcement from Columbia that the Casa de las Espanas, a new center of Spanish culture, has been opened. An endowment fund will be sought to enable it to carry out its twofold purpose as an agency of university education and of world cooperation...
...half-second the marching revolutionary troops sprang into action. Unlimbering their guns they raked the wedding fiesta, then, loyal to Provisional President Uriburu ("Idol of the Army"), they dashed for the nearby Plaza de Mayo (Government Square), eager to shoot up counter-revolutionaries who must be storming the Casa Rosada ("Pink House:" executive mansion...
...Death stalked across Plaza de Mayo, the loyal revolutionary troops supposed that counter-revolutionaries had already captured the Casa Rosada! Scrambling wildly for cover, they sniped back at the machine gunners. But, with every man behind a corner, monument or bit of roof, heads cleared, the mistake was realized, firing ceased in front of the Pink House...
...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...
...Mornings he may be found in the patio of the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...