Word: suipacha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since September 1940 sick, shelved President Ortiz had sat in his darkened mansion on the Calle Suipacha like a weakening but stubbornly weaving spider. He can make little; but he can prevent much. A 16-insulin-unit-per-day diabetic, with one eye permanently blind, the other four-fifths blacked out by diabetic cataract, he cannot control, but will not let go of, Argentine politics. The much he can prevent is a unanimous Government-bloc support to Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's policy of refusing belligerent collaboration with the Allies. Between President Ortiz and ex-President Agustin...
Last week the big Suipacha cinema in Buenos Aires showed a rowdy Universal picture Argentine Nights, starring the muggish Ritz Brothers and hollering Andrews Sisters, which was made in Hollywood last year with one eye on Latin-American trade. The Argentine audience sneered, whistled, booed. On the second night there was so much racket that a police riot squad stopped the show in the middle. Next day the municipal authorities got the theater to withdraw the picture...
Many an Argentine politico found his way through the doors of the big house on the Calle Suipacha last week. In a darkened sickroom little knots of them chatted briefly with their host, eagerly tried to gauge his strength and health...
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