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Intense was the relief of Argentine citizens last week when their President, Señor Hipolito Irigoyen, an arch individualist who fears neither God, Man nor the Devil, decided that he would merely snub President Herbert Hoover, by refusing to speak to him on the telephone...
...been feared that incorrigible Irigoyen would talk, would scandalize two hemispheres by saying exactly what he thinks of the U. S. Instead, Señor Irigoyen merely announced himself "too ill" to talk to Mr. Hoover, an announcement which meant only one thing to Argentines, who knew that the President was quite well enough to talk,* but also an announcement at which U. S. citizens need not take offense...
...Buenos Aires, terrified sextons, devout churchgoers, and two policemen found Guido Francveschini in the belfry of the church of Nuestra Señora de Buenos Aires. Lying on his back, with bell ropes tied to his feet, he was waving his legs in the air to ring the bells...
...shocked at President Ibañez's protest, the more so since the power contract in every stage of its development had been inspected and approved by congressional and technical commissions "composed of Chileans of high repute," finally that it had been enthusiastically approved by none other than Señor Francisco Lobos, Director of the Electrical Services of the Republic. However, they had ever the best interests of the country at heart, and if President Ibañez felt the way he did, they would consider the drafted contract null and void, try to frame another that would...
Though it failed to kill, Daniel Flores' fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...