Word: santamarina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even at Mar del Plata, Argentina's swank summer resort 250 miles south across the pampas. At nearby La Sorpresa, the great wooded estancia of one of Argentina's first families, Sportsman Simon Pereyra Iraola was entertaining his father-in-law, Senator Antonio Santamarina, leader of Argentina's Democratic party. Rancher Pereyra Iraola had ridden over from his neighboring estancia, San Simon, where he breeds some of the Argentine's finest horses. The next to youngest of the Pereyra Iraolas' seven children, 2-year-old Eugenio, was playing on La Sorpresa's big lawn...
Within a few hours every peon in the Pereyra Iraolas' neighborhood was stuttering out answers to police, every estancia gate and fence in rich Buenos Aires province was carefully watched. If Father Pereyra Iraola is no such popular hero as Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Senator Santamarina is nevertheless politically potent, and his brother Enrique, who heads the great Banco de la Nacion, is extremely rich. Also, a great-uncle of the kidnapped child is Carlos M. Noel, president of Argentina's Chamber of Deputies...