Word: barcelo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed a foregone conclusion that the Conservatives, under the leadership of local Boss Alberto Barcelo, would win. They were not so strong as the Radicals numerically, but the election laws were on their side. The laws permitted them, as the winning party in the last election, to appoint all poll officials and to run the election machinery pretty much as they wished...
Behind Castillo is a junta of shrewd politicians: onetime President Justo, Senate President Robustiano Patron Costas, Senator Antonio Santamarina, Boss Alberto Barcelo of Buenos Aires Province, Fascist-minded Manuel A. Fresco, onetime Governor of Buenos Aires. About the only thing that could upset their plans would be the return of President Ortiz, and a Conservative-controlled Senate Committee has ruled that the President is too nearly blind to read the bills he would sign. Disorganized by Ortiz' illness and frightened for Argentina's future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo...