Word: evita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take advantage of this historic moment, we shall impose Justicialism* on the world and the coming century will be Justicialist. And men & women will say that they owe their material and spiritual happiness not to Justicialism but to Perón and Evita. This will be our greatest glory...
...work out that way. With tired, angry shoppers comparing gripes by the hour, the queues became the focus for popular discontent. Last week, before 500 leaders of the Peronista Women's Party, Evita Peròn, looking pale and thin after her operation, took back her husband's blessing on queues and instead pronounced a curse. "Queues," she said, "must be destroyed. We have to get control of the streets. We have to eliminate the enemies...
...Evita urged her party workers to visit homes and explain to housewives that if everybody would get along with a little less, shortages would soon pass and Argentina's economy would be saved. She also urged vigilance against those "traitors" who blamed the shortages on the government. "I advise that note be made of overheard conversations," she said. "I advocate using an espionage system such as that which Japanese embassies used to employ...
...Evita's eavesdroppers went out to their task, the police, complying with new orders from on high, began breaking up queues outside stores. Pushing through the crowds, they forced people to keep moving, scattered groups of gossiping housewives. The chief result seemed to be that some women & children lost their places in line...
...Life. Mosig calls first upon the 225 elect whom he subdivides into the Managers, the Influencers, and the Scientists. Among these are Douglas MacArthur, Henry Luce, Pandit Nehru, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Plus XII, General Ridgway, Eddie Rickenbacker, J. Edgar Hoover, King Farouk, Walt Disney, Greta Garbo, Evita Peron, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy Thompson. He claims that he sent a copy of his pamphlet to each one of these...