Word: aramburu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pedro Aramburu. who took power by force but refuses to be a dictator, coaxed and head-knocked his Cabinet past a double crisis last week, and sailed ahead with his plan to hold democratic elections for a successor...
...election date itself kicked up the hottest squabble; it was too soon for some, too late for others. Aramburu announced that an Assembly will be chosen July 28 to write a new constitution. Then next Feb. 23, voters will go to the polls and select a new President...
...Cabinet faction, alarmed at the open wooing of Peronistas by some politicos, thought the dates were dangerously soon. Another and more vocal faction felt that the presidential balloting should take place this fall, as Aramburu had implied earlier. Air Minister Julio Krause, leader of the second group, gathered his top officers around him and issued a communiqué declaring that the air force could no longer take responsibility for the government's actions. To a regime held together only by armed services unity, this was real trouble, and Aramburu acted quickly. He fired Krause. and the other officers were...
...Argentine people were prepared for the worst when President Pedro Aramburu and Finance Minister Roberto Verrier went on the air last week-and the worst is just what they got. In blunt introductory remarks, the President lambasted both "egotistical businessmen" and workers who believe "that the supreme social achievement is well-paid laziness." Then he turned the microphone over to Economist Verrier, who told the story in terms of pesos. Argentina, according to the minister's figures, is consuming and featherbedding its way to 'bankruptcy...
...Aramburu government was short on cash, the cronies of ex-Dictator Juan Perón were not. By crossing plenty of palms with plenty of pesos, five of Perón's highest-ranking lieutenants jumped prison in Patagonia last week and made it across the border to Chile...