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...Adolfo Montero's Chiriguano Indians, four chocolate-brown women bathing in a pool overhung by deep green palm trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Argentine Art | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Night after night vigorous, broad-shouldered President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur sat up until the wee hours, wrangling with his Cabinet last week until Secretary of Justice Mario Montero could stand it no longer. "I am tendering my resignation," he told reporters wearily in the grey dawn. "I simply cannot sit up through all night Cabinet sessions, attend to the business of the Ministry of Justice and keep my health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Telephone Take-Over | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...June 1932 Citizen Davila succeeded in ousting President Montero with the aid of a part-Irish friend, Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced Gro-vay) of the air force. On becoming President. Don Carlos Davila made strenuous attempts to win the favor of the common people of Chile. He announced a program of "progressive" Socialism, one of the chief points of which was nationalization of the Guggenheim-controlled "Cosach" nitrate trust which, as Ambassador, he had helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Presidents of the Week | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

President Juan Esteban Montero calmed his citizenry and suppressed a threatening revolution last week by switching Cabinets, declaring martial law for 60 days. That seemed to pacify the people of Chile, but not even Juan Esteban Montero could cope with her volcanoes. Volcanoes Tinguiririca, Quisapu. Cordillera, Descabezado, Cerro Azul all erupted at once. Rolling clouds of ashes blew East across Argentina, settled on Buenos Aires 500 miles away. All night the earth rumbled, the sky flashed, nobody went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Irrepressible Andes | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Andes, Chile and the Brothers Guggenheim are in business together digging nitrates from a vast arid plain. Their company, Cosach, was a major political issue in Chile last autumn and the Brothers Guggenheim were threatened with eviction (TIME, Sept. 14; Nov. 23). Last week smiling new President Juan Esteban Montero ignored a previous commission's philippic which demanded Cosach's dissolution,, and issued through his Minister of Finance a favorable report. Cosach was glad to hear it. The company needed money and could not get it while the inquiry in Chile was under way, its monopoly threatened. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cosach Credit | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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