Word: belgrano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This World. For his half-hour programs of folk song and plain song, interspersed with religious talks, Argentina's Radio Belgrano paid Fray José a record 60,000 pesos ($6,750) for eight broadcasts. But the money no longer went for the upkeep of lavish homes in California and Mexico. Fray José, bound by a vow of poverty, had turned it over to a Franciscan seminary now abuilding in Arequipa, Peru...
...incidental beneficiary was the management of Buenos Aires' powerful "Radio Belgrano." For two long years the station had put up with Perón's mistress, Eva Duarte, a third-rate actress who had demanded top-flight treatment. Soon after the good news came over the wire, Manager Juan Cossio got Eva on the telephone: "You needn't come to work tonight...
Cossio: "Neither you nor your company are wanted in Radio Belgrano tonight or any other night. Goodbye...
Affront to Culture. Although the announcer did not name the butt of his epithet, the Press-Propaganda office promptly hit Belgrano with a 48-hour advertising suspension for "expressions [which] constituted an affront to the nation's culture.and violated the fundamental principles of broadcasting, which today is the greatest vehicle for the diffusion of spiritual, social and moral culture." By the time Colonel Peron could return and lift the suspension, it had cost Belgrano $2,000 worth of advertising time...
Colonel Peron's lady has signed a six-month contract with Radio Belgrano...