Word: hippolito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentina. Loudest alarums, most violent excursions came from Buenos Aires where a timorous cabinet suddenly decided that a military plot threatened the life of ancient, eccentric President Hippolito Irigoyen (nearly 80 years old, though he looks ten years younger). They persuaded him to mobilize the Army & Navy. Machine guns were mounted on the roof of the cigar store over which he prefers to live. Seven warships steamed into the harbor. From Campo Mayo, the 8th Cavalry clattered into town with full equipment to strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only...
...Many Irigoyenistas refuse to admit that their elderly President is a dictator, point out that he not only allows political opposition in the country, but, unheard of in most Dictatorships, allows himself to be criticised in the public press and refuses to accept any salary. Actually. Hippolito Irigoyen not only dictates the policies of Argentina, but, distrusting most of his ministers, attempts to perform most of the routine work of the country himself...
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