Word: uriburu
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...past he had started from various towns, 200 to 300 miles away. This year he started from Rosario, 205 miles above the capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro...
...Bend, he left a note for his adopted son: "Russel, I can't go on any longer." Died. Hipolito Irigoyen, 85, twice president (1916-22; 1928-30) of Argentina; of a throat cancer; in Buenos Aires where he had lived a virtual prisoner since being overthrown by General Uriburu...
Died. Very Rev. John Patrick McNichols, S. J., 57, president of the University of Detroit; of pleurisy; in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Died. General Jose Francisco Uriburu, 64, onetime (1930-32) Provisional President of the Argentine Republic; of an operation for stomach ulcers; in Paris. Nephew and great-grandson of Argentine heroes, he was a retired lieutenant-general in 1930, emerged at the head of the cadets who seized the abandoned government from President Hypolito Irigoyen. In 18 months of one-man government, President Uriburu turned Argentina's adverse trade balance into a favorable balance...
...General Uriburu announced that he was sailing at once on a "pleasure trip...
Europe. A certain General Adolfo Baldrich promptly challenged General Uriburu to duel. General Uriburu announced that his pleasure trip to Europe was really a most pressing trip to Germany where he would undergo a necessary surgical operation. General Baldrich repeated his challenge. The Government intervened. ' It announced: "Senator Palacios, the great authority on duelling codes, has ruled that insufficient grounds exist for this challenge." Meanwhile, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen who, as President, was overthrown by the coup d'état of General Uriburu, was let out of jail, promptly resumed his political activities. Back from exile arrived...