Word: braden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running for President five years ago, Juan Peron campaigned mainly against U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden, who had been rash enough to criticize Peron's dictatorial style. Last week, as the President prepared to run for a second term in 1952, Argentina's government loosed a blast against Peron's favorite electioneering target, the U.S. The attack was launched in the front page of Buenos Aires' semi-official newspaper Democrada, in an editorial signed by "Descartes," a writer generally believed to be Peron himself. Wrote Descartes...
...prearrangement, more than 50 distinguished citizens got together within three hours of the jury's action, formed the Crime Committee of Greater New York* and began looking for FBI-picked investigators to get it operating. As chairman of the nonpartisan group, the citizens picked Spruille Braden, harddriving, blunt-talking ex-Ambassador to Argentina and former Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs. Among the other members: Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, President Thomas I. Parkinson of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, President S. Sloan Colt of the Bankers Trust...
...Chairman Braden leaped into the new assignment with enthusiasm. "We are shocked when we see so much corruption -perhaps we should be called the Anti-Corruption committee," explained Braden. "This corruption goes beyond city, state and national borders. It is hurting us in world affairs...