Word: edelmiro
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...power grew (especially after he engineered the replacement of Ramírez in 1944 with another general, Edelmiro Farrell), Perón's fellow officers cooled toward him. His romance with Maria Eva Duarte, then a third-rate actress of questionable reputation, did not help matters. Perón was a widower when he met Evita in 1943. His first wife, Aurelia Tizón, had died of cancer in 1938. Perón's ungallant epitaph: "Poor thing, she always bored me." Evita never bored him, but her captivation of Perón angered his moralistic, status...
...Casa Rosada's White Salon (which is light blue), grenadiers in uniforms of the Napoleonic period-red pompon-topped shakos, blue tunics, red-striped trousers-lined the walls as outgoing President Edelmiro Farrell tearfully handed Perón the mace and threw the colors of office across his shoulders. Then the President, who had seldom ruled, slipped quietly out to the street, hailed a passing cab and went home...
Next day the ambassador rode through the fashionable Calle Florida with his staff in three open horse-drawn coaches, to present his credentials to retiring President Edelmiro Farrell. As he strode into the Casa Rosada a band tooted the Star-Spangled Banner. At the President's annual dinner on the eve of Argentina's Independence Day, Messersmith had a chance to meet Perón and start talking. He expected the talks to continue, frankly said they would be without publicity...
...Foreign Minister, said Dr. Adrogue (even before President Edelmiro Farrell could threaten him with libel charges), wouldn't let the vigilance board liquidate the potent firms (estimated value: $24,000,000) of Nazi Agent Ricardo Staudt, onetime officer in the Elite Prussian Guard. Asked Buenos Aires' staunch, prodding La Vanguardia: "Is this favoritism on the part of Sr. Cooke due to the fact that Sr. Staudt ... is the principal financier of the [Perón for President] campaign...
...Last Stand. The cheers were short-lived. Efficient, cruel Police Chief Filomeno Velazco was out, but his tactics remained. The press was still gagged. Citizen Perón took to the air, intimated that he might run for the Presidency in the April 7 elections, just announced by President Edelmiro Farrell. Perón also told Argentine workers, whose salaries he had raised before leaving office, that he would fight for social reform, that the day might come "when I will...