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Word: eva (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Evita and his friends in the labor movement came to the rescue. Eva Duarte had run away from an impoverished household in rural Junin to seek a career in the Buenos Aires theater. Though at first she wangled only a few small parts in radio and the movies, she got around in café society and made many an influential friend. One night in 1943, she met Juan Perón, then an eligible widower, at a radio party. Before many months, Colonel Perón moved into a new apartment in fashionable Calle Posadas; Eva Duarte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Love in Power | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...unionists, who knew a good thing when they saw it, acclaimed Eva wildly. Instead of just "Perón! Peron!" the people cried: "Perón! Perón! Evita!" in the big square before the palace. Under her driving command, the big General Confederation of Labor became a docile Pe-ronista instrument, its main function reduced to carrying out orders and staging periodic mass demonstrations in the square. To a friend, Perón confided: "Evita deserves a medal for what she's done for labor. She's worth more to me than five ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Love in Power | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

More than being President of Argentina [which she will be some day, anyway) Eva Duarte Perón would ove to be officially invited and welcomed to the U.S. . . . [with] a White House formal dinner, a royal escort up Pennsylvania Avenue, a ticker-tape shower and parade along New York's Fifth Avenue. Here, whatever her other attributes, is a glamorous woman who could intrigue the men and dazzle the women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...salute to TIME and its Correspondent Frank Shea and LIFE Photographer Leonard McCombe for continuing the battle against Juan and Eva Peron's Fascist state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Eva Le Gallienne in excerpts from The Cherry Orchard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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