Word: evitas
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...night Perón was arrested, Evita and the union bosses began scheming to free him. The chance came when Perón was brought back to Buenos Aires' military hospital for a lung examination. Next morning, Oct. 17, 1945, some 50,000 trade unionists streamed across the bridge from the packinghouse quarter of Avellaneda. Most of the mob were coatless-a shocking sight in staid Buenos Aires-and some, even worse, were shirtless. They marched to the hospital and to the palace, ominously bellowing...
...caught up the sneer as a weapon, shouted that he wanted to clasp all such descamisados to his bosom. Ever since, Peronistas have celebrated the day of the descamisados' loyalty. It was Perón's March on Rome. Four days later, Juan and Evita were married in a Secret civil ceremony...
...Good Helpmate. Soon after moving into the presidency, Juan Perón gave his wife a desk and a few chores to do at the Secretariat of Labor, his old post. Within weeks, the Secretary of Labor was running Evita's errands, and Evita was running the show. Politicians who had ticked her off as a giddy blonde, clinging to Perón's coattails, found instead that she was an energetic young woman with a will of iron, a rudimentary political sense Aid all the nerve in the world...
Picking up the same dawn-to-dark work routine as her husband, she interviewed hundreds of people daily, made speeches at union rallies all over Argentina. Taking over the management of the rowdy descamisados from her husband, Evita tickled them into submission. When the railway union asked for a 40% rise, Evita said: "I think they should get 50%." They did. When the telephone workers asked for 70% in the pious hope of getting half, Evita got them the whole...
...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...