Word: uriburu
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...want some money?" said they in effect to General Uriburu...
Nervously the U. S. Chamber of Commerce of Buenos Aires cabled pleas for swiftest possible recognition, seemed to fear that Great Britain would recognize Revolutionist Uriburu first. Under previous and pro-British President Irigoyen, British businessmen enjoyed many an Argentine Government favor, had a distinct edge over U. S. competition...
Poor Old Irigoyen. Almost every other day last week, 73-year-old ex-President Irigoyen became alternately a "prisoner" and a "guest" of the Uriburu regime. Official announcements on this point finally became so jumbled that only this could be said: a white-haired old man slowly mounted the gangplank of the cruiser Belgrano, walking as in a dream between his daughter and his doctor...
...Shrewd Uriburu. Having talked by radio fortnight ago to London papers, shrewd President Uriburu spoke last week to New York newsorgans ("I will appoint an ambassador to the U. S. within 24 hours after recognition of my Government"),* and later over a broadcast hook-up to the entire U. S. in Spanish...
When an Englishman followed General Uriburu, read the President's speech in "English," many a U. S. listener chuckled. The Englishman mentioned "Argentynes," uttered in accents of impeccable rectitude General Uriburu's assertion that the "only motives" of Dr. Irigoyen's regime were "grahft, incomp't'nce and th' lowest sensualiteh...