Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santiago, bewildered by these developments, three schools of rumor held sway: 1) that former Dictator Carlos Ibanez, still supposed to be exiled in Argentina last week, might be expected back in Santiago at any time to resume his interrupted Presidency (TIME, Aug. 3); 2) that anti-foreign sentiment would flame up and sweep to power Senator Manuel Hidalgo. Communist, who ran in Chile's last presidential election on a platform of confiscating "Cosach," splitting up Chile's vast landed estates among the peasants and repudiating the national debt; 3) that the Army & Navy strongmen would postpone the selection...
Grove & Davila. Jaunty and glib, Colonel Marmaduke Grove has figured in several Chilean revolutions, attempted one in 1930, using for purposes of getting into Chile from Argentina the airplane Friendship in which Passenger Amelia Earhart first crossed the Atlantic. Captured by troops loyal to Dictator Ibanez, the Colonel was exiled to Easter Island. There he pumped the Chilean Governor of this colony so full of revolutionary ideas that Governor & Colonel set out in a small boat to Tahiti, later made their way to France. In July 1931, after Dictator Ibanez was ousted, Colonel Grove returned to Chile, has been intriguing...
...Carlos Guillermo Davila, born of poor parents 47 years ago, worked his way through law school, nearly starved trying to practice law, entered journalism. Playing the Press and politics for all they were worth, he built up a fortune in little over a decade, boomed General Ibanez for the Presidency (Dictatorship) and took as his well-earned reward the Chilean Embassy at Washington...
Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...
...Vicente Blasco Ibanez...