Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public office in Chile (with the exception of a brief term as director of the State railroads) until fortnight ago when he became Premier. Last week Pedro Blanquier was back in private life. Eight days of Pedro were apparently enough for Chile's wily Dictator, swart President Carlos Ibanez...
...Dictator who knows when to retreat is square, swart Carlos Ibanez, the President who has held the reins of Chilean Government in his fist for four years. Times were bad in Chile last week. The Government was in grave financial difficulties, a committee of British and U. S. bankers was expected to reorganize once more the country's finances. Santiago teemed with discontent. In Buenos Aires the Argentine police had raided the rooms of one Pedro Leon Ugalde, who narrowly failed to bring off a Chilean revolution at Conception several months ago. As a matter of courtesy they announced...
...Canny Ibanez sidestepped. For the first time since he took office a Chilean Cabinet formed last week by someone other than Carlos Ibanez himself, took charge of the departments of government. The new premier, Pedro Blanquier, chose his Cabinet from the majority civilian parties. Although a member of the Radical party, he is known as being independent and fearless...
...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...
...opening of a gambling casino (boasting "the largest bar in the world"; at Chile's famed seaside resort Vina del Mar,* the mayor of the town cried: "It was due to the personal interest and initiative of President Carlos Ibanez himself that Congress passed the special law enabling us to have games of roulette and baccarat." Observers commented on the fact that dictators like President Ibanez. Primo de Rivera and Prime Minister Mussolini nearly always encourage roulette, while republican governments outlaw...