Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once was. When the third anniversary of Perón's popular election fell last week, it became equally clear that Perón's labor prop was also slipping...
...approved Argentine fashion, the union's officers had taken their demands to the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, the preserve of María Eva Duarte de Perón. The secretariat, acting on hold-the-line advice from the nation's new economic council, met the union's demands only halfway. When their Peronista officers failed to protest, the union's rank & file revolted...
Special Treatment. They called a "progressive" strike (an hour's work stoppage the first night, 1½ hours the second, etc.). Eva Perón's Democracia got special treatment: a stoppage plus a slowdown. For strikebreakers, Eva called in convicts from Buenos Aires' federal penitentiary. The convicts refused to work. Democracia was among the first papers to suspend publication...
Last week in Washington, Agustin Merlo phoned the society to say that the Maria Eva Duarte de Péron Social Assistance Foundation of Argentina had been pleased to send enough clothes for 600 of the poor children of Washington. Told that the State Department had no objections, Mrs. Fay Vawters, co-director of the Society, said bravely: "We are going to accept [the gift] with all the grace that God in his mercy can bestow upon us." Evita had made the most of her chance...
...dismissed from the case, Tylman took over. He yanked out the six teeth. President Perón not only liked the job; he liked Tylman. Thereafter Tylman was a regular dinner guest at the presidential residence. When he departed for the U.S. last week, Perón, Eva, Ivanissevich and other high functionaries drove out to Moron airport...