Word: castillos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Something about the affair smelled fishy. Handsome, taciturn Acting President Ramon S. Castillo was having trouble with his legislators. Last week he was anxious to get a new budget passed, a proposal loan of $110,000,000 from the U.S. approved. But the Radical majority of the Chamber of Deputies would not hear of it until he assured them that this winter's Buenos Aires provincial elections (for 42 out of 158 Chamber seats) would be held under Federal, not provincial, law. This would put an end to a long-established system of election fraud by which Acting President...
...Nazi doctrine. Though only about 235,000 of Argentina's 13,000,000 inhabitants are Germans, many of them are well-to-do and influential. German-controlled investments in the country add up to about $1,500,000,000. The Argentine Government, under Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, has done its best to turn an austerely neutral face to the world. But in spite of several stump-toed Nazi plots (including one for German annexation of Patagonia, uncovered in 1939), the only formal action that Argentina has taken against the Nazis has been to order the Nazi Party dissolved...
...received money from ostensible German "welfare" agencies, that he used the money for ends "foreign to his diplomatic character." As the four most influential newspapers in Buenos Aires (La Nación, La Prensa, El Mundo, Critica) issued a simultaneous demand that Acting President RamÓn S. Castillo scrap his policy of neutrality, it looked as if Ambassador von Thermann would soon pack his trunks...
...Buenos Aires, with Acting President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting...
...British and U.S. decision to help Russia and the Pope's refusal to join Adolf Coeur de Lion's crusade kept the Nazi campaign from gaining headway among the more statesmanlike of Latin America's leaders. Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo joined Brazil's Getulio Vargas and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in broadcasting good-neighborly greetings to the U.S. on the Fourth of July...