Word: americo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrewd Evita Peron knew a good chance when she saw one. The letter on her desk, addressed to Agustin Americo Merlo of Argentina's Washington embassy staff, was a routine solicitation from the capital's Children's Society, Inc. for a contribution for needy Washington children. Smart Señior Merlo had got the society's O.K. to send the request to Buenos Aires for Evita to peruse...
...changes. The U.S. established an airport (Roberts Field, now not in use) and a seaplane base at Fisherman's Lake.* President Tubman, an energetic, intelligent lawyer, now works tirelessly to carry out social and technological reforms. He champions the natives against the frock-coated, white-helmeted elite of Americo-Liberians, to whom he is known as "That Man in the Executive Mansion...
...Congressmen. Only Congress itself can fire them, and Dutra's P.S.D. (Social Democrat Party) cannot muster the two-thirds majority to do it. Moreover, the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union), which has backed Dutra on many an issue, refuses to go along on this one. U.D.N. Chief Jose Americo de Almeida had gone straight to President Dutra at squat Catete Palace and made that plain...