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founded to represent railway workers; Marcelo T. de
Alvear becomes president
1928
Yrigoyen is elected president for second time
1929
YPF establishes uniform price system for oil products
Age of Populism
1930
Export prices plummet; General José F. Uriburu ousts
Yrigoyen in first military coup of 20th century
1932
General Augustín Justo is elected president after some
voting irregularities; Radicals prevented from parti-
cipating in election
1934
Roca-Runciman Treaty preserves British markets for
Argentine exports
1936
Buenos Aires grows to 2.4 million residents; tango great
Gardel dies; Carlos Saavadra Lamas wins Nobel Peace
Prize
1938
Electoral fraud is widespread in presidential election of
Conservative Roberto M. Ortiz
1941
Fabricaciones Militares is established under military
control to manufacture war supplies
1943
Nationalist army officers lead coup d'etat; Juan Domingo
Perón takes over Labor Department
1945
Massive demonstration denounces Perón's prolabor
policies; workers demonstrate on October 17 to free
Perón from arrest
1946
Perón is elected president
1947
Women gain voting rights; 4.7 million out of 16 million
Argentines live in Buenos Aires
1948
Perón nationalizes railway industry by buying out
British companies
1950
Union membership reaches 2 million; blue-collar work-
ers receive 50 percent of national income
1952
Perón is reelected; Evita Perón dies; drought and reces-
sion produce 40 percent inflation; workers protest aus-
terity plans
1953
Victoria Ocampo is arrested and jailed for 26 days
1954
Catholic Action leads opposition to Perón; church-state
relations deteriorate
