Word: edelmiro
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...country was in an uproar. Only the soldiers and cops seemed to be still loyal to the strong man. Two key members of the Cabinet quit. Even President Edelmiro Farrell, disgusted with puppet doodling, was reportedly threatening to resign...
Austere and rigorously decorous, a group of Argentine generals and admirals strode into Buenos Aires pink and peeling Government House. On the desk of horse-loving, horse-faced President Edelmiro Farrell they plunked down a memorandum. Its message: they approved Farrell's promise to hold free elections; they opposed the efforts of Juan Domingo Perón (Vice President, War Minister and Labor Secretary) to get himself elected President ("We disapprove of proselytizing ... by those holding public office...
President Edelmiro Farrell, front man for Argentina's militarists, stood up before the annual Army & Navy banquet last week and growled a reluctant concession. He solemnly promised to call a presidential election "before the end of the year...
...Government of President Edelmiro Farrell and Vice President Juan Domingo Peron still controlled the powerful Army and the Gestapo-like Federal Police, trained by Buenos Aires Police Chief Filomeno Velazco, an expert in torture. If it chose to defy both popular hatred and world displeasure, it might hold out indefinitely...
When the Colonels staged their June 1943 revolution, Fritz polished his military contacts, wangled a reputed $50,000,000 munitions order. But the ex-Austrian was hobbled first by a materials shortage, later by U.S. and British blacklisting. President Edelmiro Farrell and Vice President Juan Peron, tired of Mandl's steady drain on the Treasury, grew more & more dissatisfied with the trickle of cartridges, rifles, hand-grenades and gliders that came from the Mandl factory...