Word: dictadura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scare, 5,000 Irigoyen followers, who love their elderly President so much that they have given up all party names, call themselves Personalistas Irigoyenistas, paraded through the streets. Just what they were parading for few seemed to know. Told to shout, they shouted Viva Irigoyen! Viva La Dictadura!* till they were hoarse, then varied the monotony by reviving century-old civil war tocsins: "Death to the Unitarian Savages! Long Live the Holy Federation!" A few wags cheered "El Torito de Matadoros," champion Argentine Boxer Justo Suarez, now attached to the Argentine consulate in Manhattan. Five anti-Irigoyenistas ploughed through...
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