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Swedish matches lit the fires of revolt which ran Isidro Ayora out of the Presidential Palace at Quito fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 31). First as Provisional President, since 1929 as Constitutional President, he had been Ecuador's chief executive for the past five years. Ironically, the same matches which burned him last week helped secure his position two years ago. At that time he got a loan from Swedish Match Co. (Kreuger & Toll) in return for granting the firm a national monopoly. Not only did President Ayora grant a monopoly, but he agreed to pay out of the Ecuadorean...
President Isidro Ayora of Ecuador, as is the general custom of Latin American rulers, last week asked not his Congress, but his Army for an expression of confidence. Minister of War Colonel Carlos Guerrero relayed President Ayora 's query to minions. Officers of the Chimborazo battalion of engineers answered that they would like to revolt. Officers of the Bolivar battalion of artillery said they would like to participate in such a shindig. It was an effective boo. President Ayora ordered Congress convened to consider his "integrity." Congress decided his integrity was none of their business. There upon President Ayora...
...time she was one of the Carmel, Calif, literary colony, then built a house at Santa Fe, N. M. Between literary jobs she goes on what she calls "jam-borees," makes enormous quantities of jam, jellies, pickles for herself & friends. Her flower-garden is famed. Other books: Isidro, A Woman of Genius, No. 26 Jayne Street, The American Rhythm...
...military funeral in Madrid, with the entire garrison brigade in the line of march. Such a funeral was planned for him; a host of grandees, churchmen, royal representatives and public dignitaries made ready to march slowly behind the flag-draped coffin along the route, lined with soldiers, to San Isidro Cemetery, where relatives of Don Primo are already buried...
President Isidro Ayora, who, besides being his country's foremost surgeon, is a sort of Ecuadorian Hamilton under whom Ecuadorian finances have been reborn, was at the pier to offer Mr. Hoover a hearty abrazo (hug and back-pat), which Mr. Hoover accepted and deftly returned. The nation's leading newspaper announced that this was "one of the greatest events in the history of Ecuador, a never-to-be-forgotten day." At the reception, the Ayora speech mentioned Washington, Lincoln, Wilson. The Hoover speech mentioned the surplus (first on record) in Ecuador's treasury...