Word: uriburu
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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White Flag! Up the staff of the "Pink House" as General Uriburu approached rose jerkily a white flag. But inside tern" porary President Martinez had not quite surrendered. As the sword-rattler clanked into the President's office with his staff the civilian faced him calmly...
...General Uriburu: Well, Martinez, the Revolution is a success-complete! I demand your resignation...
...Uriburu: Nonsen! I am not simple enough to make a martyr of you-but your resignation is necessary to prevent bloodshed. Resign or you will be imprisoned...
Within ten minutes the formal resignation was in General Uriburu's khaki pocket. Within 30 minutes Argentina's "Pink House" was overrun by a merry mob. Portraits of Dr. Irigoyen were hurled from the windows, burned. Two busts of him were dragged forth, one decapitated, the other paraded through the streets in a coffin with the placard: "He's finished...
Black Derby. In his famed and battered old black derby, Dr. Irigoyen, sick to the point of lethargy, was rushed by friends in a motor car to the city of La Plata, some 35 miles from Buenos Aires. Arrested there by troops of General Uriburu, the old man took off his hat, stood fiddling with it before the officer who had arrested...