Word: estigarribia
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...Then, as I was getting into my dress clothes to attend one of the numerous receptions at the Club Centenario, a messenger showed up and gave me a small slip of paper with instructions to be at a corner of the Calle Estigarribia in the heart of downtown Asunción at 10 o'clock the next morning. There was no mention of whom I would meet there...
...Spiraling Budget. What Minister Plate had to say was that the Army's insistent demands were driving Paraguay's budget clear out of sight; the Army was spending more annually than it had spent during the Chaco war. Under French-trained President José Félix Estigarribia, the Army had been kept in its place, but since Morinigo had taken office (1940), the colonels had got out of hand. Particularly rambunctious was the Chief of Staff, Colonel Bernardo Aranda, who had shown signs of liking the way the colonels did things down in Argentina. This year...
Bauer predicted the Chaco War and its victorious ending. He predicted the presidency of José Félix Estigarribia. When he predicted the presidency of Higinio Morinigo (another unlikely event which came to pass), the grateful Morinigo made him a sort of court prophet, consulting him often on matters of state...
Strong-man Morinigo, who grabbed authority Sept. 7, 1940, after the airplane-crash death of President Jose Felix Estigarribia, made his job "legal" last February in an election in which he was the only candidate. Now there were three grand balls, many banquets and luncheons, parades and a sports show to assure the people that their choice was not unduly limited...
...last week, at the peak of his career, handsome, laconic, 52-year-old José Félix Estigarribia, soldier, diplomat, statesman, boarded a plane with his wife in Asuncion for a holiday at his country home on Lake Ypacaray. Somewhere between Altos and San Bernardino, 65 miles east of the capital, the pilot ran into fog and crashed...