Word: interventors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With Pistols. Raul Damonte Taborda had charged that Colonel Rottjer, while Interventor in Buenos Aires Prov ince, permitted fraudulent election practices, thereby disgracing the uniform he wore. That was why the two men faced each other now. Wrists had been band aged, heavy double-edged sabers examined. The points were sharp as needles; front cutting edges "and the first third of each back edge were razor keen...
Though the Province of Santa Fe broke out into a rash of angry rioting and gun fights, though the Ministry of Interior was swamped with protests, Castillo sat tight, the first round safely his. Ortiz, instead of sending a Federal interventor to insure an honest election as he did last March in Buenos Aires, sat tight too. If the Conservatives can repeat this week in the Mendoza elections, they will pick nearly enough electors to insure victory in 1943. If Ortiz lets them, the fight will be over...