Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end exiled factions of both right and left were still trooping back from abroad. The staff of urbane, British-mannered tin baron Carlos Victor Aramayo came up from Argentina. Jose Antonio Arze, head of the strong P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) arrived from Santiago. Somewhere between their two groups, Bolivians might find representative government. Promised the Junta: "We will call elections and then turn over our power to a government chosen by the people...
...inevitably as warm weather breeds poliomyelitis, polio breeds panic. This year's epidemic, now nearing its peak, is bad-50% greater than last year-and worst since 1934 (latest federal statistics); San Antonio, Denver and Minneapolis have been especially hard hit. But the U.S. Public Health Service has pointed out that the cases (2,596 so far) are scattered, and that the epidemic seems unlikely to take on menacing proportions...
Last week the Moscow censor passed a report that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of all Soviet land forces, had been assigned to command the Odessa military district. It was as though Ike Eisenhower had been sent back to San Antonio. The Soviet press did not mention the move, but the world outside erupted with rumors...
Last week Portugal produced no big spot news ; it hadn't for 20 years ; it might not for 20 years more if the God he strove so hard to serve spared Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. For Salazar distrusted news. He suppressed and distorted it for the good of the Portuguese who, he believed, were unfit for facts. After 20 years of Salazar, the dean of Europe's dictators, Portugal was a melancholy land of impoverished, confused and frightened people. Even Salazar, that model of rectitude, showed signs of succumbing to a law of politics discovered by Lord Acton...
...years, continued chaos resolved itself into a government shakeup, and mild, aristocratic General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona became President. This besashed and epauletted figurehead (still President in name today) made Salazar Minister of Finance, with extraordinary powers, which he used to make himself dictator of the nation...