Word: montevideo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Council of nine. Proof against embryo dictators, this constitution leaked no power. Only leaks were heavy graft and heavy taxation of private business. The taxes hit Montevideo, Uruguay's only sizeable city and one-quarter of its population. The graft kept the Colorado Party fat. The Colorados pushed through graft-rich social reforms: old age pensions, universal suffrage, government monopolies of industry. Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias...
Gynecology 6 Obstetrics: Montevideo, Dr. Juan Pouorfila; Bogota, Dr. Juan N. Corpas; Mexico City, Dr. Ever-ardoLanda; Havana, Drs. Gustavo Cuervo Rubio, Gualberto Ponce y Diaz...
Orthopedic Surgery: Buenos Aires, Dr. Jose Vails; Montevideo, Dr. Prudencio Pena; Bogota, Dr. Jose M. Montoya; Havana, Drs. Alberto Inclan, Pedro Sanchez Toledo...
Children: Buenos Aires, Dr. Gregorio Araoz Alfaro; Montevideo, Dr. Luis Morquio; Lima, Dr. Orestes Botto; Mexico City, Drs. Antonio Sordo Noriega, Mario Torroella; Havana, Dr. Angel Arturo Aballi...
...wood. When the green trees would not burn, they shrugged their shoulders and went back to La Paz. Argentina made a formal protest to Uruguay that the revolt was hatched on Uruguayan soil. When Dr. Adolfo Guemes and Dr. Jose Luis Cantillo, Radical Party politicians, reached Buenos Aires from Montevideo they were promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen, about whom all the rumpus centred, was coughing with bronchitis on Martin Garcia Island. Dictator Uriburu ordered the new Congress convoked Jan. 20, promised to return Argentina to constitutional government within 30 days. Leaders of the insurrection were announced...