Word: chilean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santiago talks, Perón found out that stern old General Ibañez favored economic cooperation-and nothing more. Moreover, Chileans had taken offense at Perón's pronouncement just before leaving Buenos Aires that "we must have total union and immediately." Almost without exception, Chilean newspapers played down Perón's arrival, and one went so far as to report it in a single paragraph on the back page. In the end, Perón had to settle for a good deal less than he wanted. The two Presidents signed a protocol pledging negotiation...
...athletes, trade unionists and government officials to Santiago. A claque of descamisados chanted "Pay-ron, Pay-ron" in their best Buenos Aires manner during Perén's balcony speech. Members of the St. Evita News Vendors' Union of Buenos Aires hawked Peronista emblems, and buttonholed Chilean workers for enthusiastic "missionary" talks about the union swimming pools and apartment houses in the new Argentina. One of the sport stars in the delegation who attracted special attention was Socialite Tennist María Teran Weiss, attractive young widow of a Buenos Aires businessman. Reason: she is the latest...
...Friends. By this time the "Gann-Longworth feud" was one of the nation's prime concerns. When it became known that Dolly would make her first appearance as Second Lady of the Land at a dinner to be given by Chilean Ambassador Carlos Dávila, citizens who wanted to witness her hour of triumph bid $100 for an invitation to the party. Finally, at 8:00 p.m. on April 11, 1929, buxom (180 Ibs.) Dolly Gann took the arm of diminutive (100 Ibs.) Carlos Dávila and marched to the head of the table. Alice Roosevelt Longworth...
...vote him permission* to visit Chile later this month as the guest of his old friend and fellow general, President Carlos Ibáñez. During the seven-day trip, Perón expects to visit Santiago and Valparaiso, and to sign a treaty trading Argentine steers for Chilean copper...
Will Perón also try to put over his old plan for uniting Argentina and Chile in a customs union? Chilean Publisher Luis Rodríguez, returning last week from Buenos Aires, said Peron told him: "I believe it is time for Argentina and Chile to form a political and economic federation." When Rodriguez gingerly mentioned that many Chileans fear that the Argentines would try to dominate such a partnership, Perón guffawed: "In order that this ideal should become reality, I would be willing to let Chile annex Argentina...