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...hellion. He wore lace-trimmed drawers, lived almost exclusively on beef, rode like a centaur and decimated the population of his country. He once slit the throats of 1,500 prisoners of war, was defeated and forced to flee the country in 1852 by a former lieutenant, Justo Jose de Urquiza, head of an army of hard riding gauchos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fighters in Lace Drawers | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Swimming off Mar del Plata General Agustin P. Justo, President-elect of Argentina, was saved from drowning by coast guardsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Fourteen scampered back. When night fell Argentina's "Three Wild Irishmen"-Mario, Eduardo and Roberto Kennedy-still held their wood. In Buenos Aires Dictator-President General Jose Francisco Uriburu pulled his long mustaches and scratched his head. He could not turn over the government to President-elect Augustin Justo with clean hands until the Kennedys were smoked out. ''Trivial and ridiculous fiasco!'' he growled-and called for more troops. Trivial (but not entirely ridiculous) Argentina's latest "revolution" was indeed. With some 100 followers the Kennedy brothers, famed fighters with pistol & knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Three Wild Irishmen | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...seemed to know. Told to shout, they shouted Viva Irigoyen! Viva La Dictadura!* till they were hoarse, then varied the monotony by reviving century-old civil war tocsins: "Death to the Unitarian Savages! Long Live the Holy Federation!" A few wags cheered "El Torito de Matadoros," champion Argentine Boxer Justo Suarez, now attached to the Argentine consulate in Manhattan. Five anti-Irigoyenistas ploughed through the crowd, fired a score of shots which brought down Parader Manuel Varela. At week's end no other signs of revolution were evident. President Irigoyen was furious to learn that by order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Alarums & Excursions | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...bright summer morn, a crowd collected at the railway station of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Upon the platform was the Minister of War, General Justo, surrounded by many Cabinet members, Army officers, other dignitaries, including Señor Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S. and a delegation from the U. S. Legation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: A-Dancing | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

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