The period between 1930 and 1943, starting when General José Félix Uriburu came to power in the 1930 coup, was known as the "Infamous Decade" owing to the high degree of corruption involving business, and both the ruling Concordance party and its opponents. This period was marked by electoral fraud, persecution of political opponents, and government corruption generally. The key scandal of the era centered on CHADE ("Companía Hispano Argentina de Electricidad"), a supplier of electricity, whose bribery of officials was so transparent that the recipients of the bribes were known as "chadístas." Another widely reported case at the time was that of the President (Speaker) of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, Juan Kaiser, who resigned in 1940 following revelations that he had profited from the sale of of Army land in the upscale Buenos Aires suburb of El Palomar.