Word: figuerola
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...greatly distressed me with your story about the appointment of one Jose Figuerola to take charge of Argentina's guns-for-butter Five-Year-Plan [TIME, Dec. 16]. Reason for my reaction: the picture you ran and labeled "Blueprinter Figuerola is my own likeness-and I am decidedly not working for Mr. Peron, nor have I ever been in any way connected with Axis activities...
...guns-for-butter Five-Year Plan (TIME, Oct. 14), Juan Peron last week picked a man tabbed by the U.S. Blue Book as a wartime A is agent. His choice: Barcelona-born José Figuerola, who got his start by blueprinting Government-bossed trade unions for Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Perón's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph...
Because none of the 27 laws enacting the Five-Year Plan had yet been passed, Figuerola's job was still pretty much a promotion job. Last week, as he and other Peronistas hopefully plugged the plan as the complete cure for Argentine troubles, Porteños told a story that pointed up the need to do something...