Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stronger than most other South American governments is that of President Carlos Ibanez, a dictator so fearless of revolution in his bailiwick that he chose last week to tamper with the drinking habits of Chileans, potent topers...
...General Ibanez prefaced his dramatic action by weeding in the Presidential Palace gardens, his usual daily exercise. Then, stamping the dirt from his shoes, he went in to sign what was swiftly nicknamed the "Drunkards' Decree...
...Dictator Ibanez's definition of an "habitual drunkard": one whom the duly constituted courts of Chile shall have convicted of being drunk five times in six months or eleven times within the space of one year...
...Talking over the long-distance telephone with President Ibanez of Chile, President Hoover said he would gladly exchange Washington's heat for Santiago's cold...