Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of his quixotic, personal resentment at the high tariff utterances of Calvin Coolidge and his successor in the White House, President Irigoyen still refuses to send an Argentine Ambassador to Washington, seemingly in the hope that by persisting in this snub he will sooner or later make President Hoover unhappy. Though the Argentine Treasury has ample funds, quixote Irigoyen's dislike of paying bills is such that for months he has held up payments to the State's legitimate creditors. In British shipyards lie two destroyers, ordered and approved by the Argentine Government. Congress has voted the money...