Word: cerda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the Congress, the whole thing was a mistake. Chile's party was as unlike Germany's as a sickle is unlike a swastika. The world must remember that 15,000 Nacistas helped elect Chile's Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last October. Henceforth the party name was to be Popular Socialist Vanguard. It would advocate: 1) nationalization of copper, nitrate, iron industries, electricity, railroads (all but the last largely U. S.-owned); 2) creation of a State-owned bank and merchant marine; 3) housing for Chile's underpaid workers. Having thus clarified a world...
...first Popular Front Government, organized as such, in the history of the Americas was inaugurated fortnight ago in a simple, one-minute ceremony when Chile's President-elect Pedro Aguirre Cerda put on a tricolored sash, symbol of his office. No heart-&-soul revolutionary like Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, President Aguirre is a top-flight lawyer, a member of the Radical Party and a millionaire landowner...
...Popular Front would go with a revolutionary program of social reform. Popular Frontists, 80,000 strong, jammed Santiago's new National Stadium to demonstrate for Loyalist Spain and greet Indaledo Prieto, former Loyalist defense minister who had made a special trip to be at the Aguirre Cerda inaugural. But reports of a Rightist Putsch to regain control lost in the close election continued to buzz through the country...