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...Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, police had prepared sandbag barricades and machine-gun positions. To General Domingo Martinez, Buenos Aires Police Chief, President Castillo gave orders to defend the city. But when the troops marched in the police made it clear that they were acting "to maintain order only" -there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General...
Mother's Helpers. In Nogales, Ariz., U.S. immigration authorities allowed 93-year-old Manuela Martinez de Lopez entry from Mexico to visit her mother in Los Angeles...
Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
MAXIMILIANO H. MARTINEZ...
...will note that this letter is signed by General Martinez as a simple citizen and not as President of the Republic. Contrast his attitude with that of the fuss made by our Senators and Congressmen and others in position over "X" cards, so well described in the last two or three Air-Express editions of TIME...