Seventy-three years old and wracked by a fever of 103, South America's greatest champion against North America tumbled tragically last week from Power. He fought the Monroe Doctrine. He would have no truck with the Kellogg Pact. He flouted the Pan-American projects of Calvin Coolidge, did his best to blight the effect of Herbert Hoover's South American goodwill tour. Yet few U. S. citizens ever knew the name of their Great Enemy: Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen.
Argentina called him merely but sufficiently El Hombre ("The Man"). That she thought him her greatest hombre was...
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