Word: irigoyen
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Intense was the relief of Argentine citizens last week when their President, Señor Hipolito Irigoyen, an arch individualist who fears neither God, Man nor the Devil, decided that he would merely snub President Herbert Hoover, by refusing to speak to him on the telephone...
...been feared that incorrigible Irigoyen would talk, would scandalize two hemispheres by saying exactly what he thinks of the U. S. Instead, Señor Irigoyen merely announced himself "too ill" to talk to Mr. Hoover, an announcement which meant only one thing to Argentines, who knew that the President was quite well enough to talk,* but also an announcement at which U. S. citizens need not take offense...
Year after year Argentina, guided by President Irigoyen who is in fact more of a dictator, continues to give the diplomatic cut direct to the U. S. by refusing to send an Ambassador to Washington. In this way Señor Irigoyen keeps before Administration after Administration his permanent protest against...
...threat to world wheat prices" which Señor Irigoyen believes to exist in the operations of the U. S. Farm Board, which he expects at any time to throw a price-depressing surplus of wheat on the European market...
...March must come a showdown. Though Argentina is prosperous, though President Irigoyen's Radical Party has a virtual strangle hold on the country, half of the Chamber of Deputies must be re-elected at the March elections. Much of unique Irigoyen's strength comes from the country districts and Argentine farmers are glowering under a bad wheat crop, a crop which left them with an exportable surplus of less than 2,000,000 tons (66.6 million bushels), about half as much as the Ministry of Agriculture's early predictions...