Word: castillos
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Said pleased Franklin Roosevelt in a message to Ramón S. Castillo, Acting President of Argentina: "In the years to come we will look upon the trade agreement signed today as a monument to the ways of peace...
...routine press conference last week Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo announced that he had summarily fired the entire Municipal Council of Buenos Aires and would replace it with a hand-picked set of appointees. Loud though the explosion was, it was not loud enough to blow the Acting President out of the Casa Rosada...
...Buenos Aires Municipal Council has had some ugly scandals recently, but has turned its racketeering members over to the courts. Nevertheless, Señor Castillo used this graft as grounds for firing the whole Council...
Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for Castillo's scalp, insisting that the Acting President was hellbent for dictatorship. Only two papers approved the firing: Razón, arch-conservative organ of Castillo's own party, and the Nazi-subsidized Pampero. Ramón Castillo sat tight. If he gets away with ousting the Council, he may decree that December's elections in Buenos Aires Province be held under provincial, instead of Federal, law, thereby insuring a fraudulent victory for his own Conservative Party...
...retains significant strength (especially among brass hats) in the Army, is said to have masterminded the suppression of last fortnight's aviation-branch "revolt" (TIME, Oct. 6). He can count on support from Ramon Castillo. He remains in the good graces of the U.S. State Department. But the Radical Party, mindful of his strong-arm treatment of its leaders when he was last in power, will be out to nail him. Consensus: dark horse he may be, but not too dark to wind up atop the Conservative Party's ticket. If so, he will probably be elected, although...