Word: evita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EVITA: FIRST LADY by John Barnes Grove; 195 pages...
...clinch a $100 million railroad-car contract for the Dutch firm Werkspoor. The bribe, which was authorized by the Dutch State Bank and approved by the government, also included the gift of a deluxe presidential train for el Lider and $12,000 in jewelry for his second wife, Evita...
Flanked by his wife Evita, a former actress whose compassion for the poor earned her an immense following, Perón enthralled the masses with his speeches from the balcony at the Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. He followed up his pledges of social change with real reforms: the establishment of a social security system, construction of low-cost housing, wage hikes and the lengthening of workers' vacations, public health programs against tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy, and the encouragement of collective bargaining...
...Evita, worshiped by the masses as the "little Madonna," bolstered Perón's popularity. She was head of the Eva Perón Foundation, a lightly audited charity that she used to pass $100 million annually to the poor. After she died of cancer in 1952 at age 33, Argentines petitioned the Vatican to canonize her. Although Rome refused, a secular cult has formed to revere her memory; it is still going strong...
...Like Evita, Isabelita wears her hair in a bun and has courted the trade unions...