Word: acci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acción Democrática. Although young, Army officers had apparently inspired most of the fighting, the men behind the revolution were chubby, liberal Rómulo Betancourt, new Provisional President, and shy, famed novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire. Their Democratic Action Party was the political instrument...
...Government of Conservative President Ramón S. Castillo impartially banned meetings of the pro-British Acción Argentina, the left-wing Forja and nationalist groups. Police fueled planes to rush reinforcements wherever needed...
Argentina's Acting President last week put his foot down, forbade 5,000 mass meetings scheduled throughout the country by the militant, pro-British Acción Argentina as public demonstrations of "adherence to the American front" and "faith in the ultimate victory of democracy." On the eve of the meetings, expected to turn out 100,000 people in Buenos Aires alone, Acting President Ramón S. Castillo decreed that the "attitude of Acción Argentina is contrary to the neutrality declared by the Argentine Government and to the dignity of the Argentine nation...
...telling a political rally at the resort town of Tigre that Ramón Castillo abridged the rights of the people in banning the Acción meetings, José Carlos Vidal, Radical Party campaign speaker, was arrested, charged with disrespect to the Government. Police moved in on the meeting with clubs and warning pistol shots in the air, snipped the wires of the public-address system...