Word: hipã
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Shotgun Toters. Elsewhere throughout frantically excited Buenos Aires firing had only begun. Supporters of ousted ex-President Hip??lito Irigoyen seized whatever firearms came handy, swarmed into the streets with shotguns and hunting rifles, dashed about in motor cars proclaiming General Uriburu's overthrow? which they may or may not have believed...
...legislation as the bill providing full-pay pensions for all middle-aged workmen. As an Autocrat, he holds every week a semifeudal and entirely unofficial court before which any Buenos Aires bootblack or beef baron who dares to do so may appear and tell his troubles. As an "original," Hip??lito Irigoyen is rapidly turning white the hair of Argentina's more orthodox statesmen...
Only Argentina has a President like Hip??lito Irigoyen. In Buenos Aires last week six policemen pumped bullets into the limp body of an Italian assassin, called world attention to Argentina's President...
Living above a cigar store is only one of President Hip??lito Irigoyen's minor idiosyncrasies. Aged 76, he looks about 60. He quit law school as a young man to become a cattle rancher, became independently wealthy before entering politics. Twice elected President (1916 & 1928) he is today virtual dictator of the Argentine. Because of his beef income, he gives his salary to charity. He has been aptly called a "Radical Autocrat...