Word: leeper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock, low rates (fixed by the Government) and truck competition cut into dividends; for years the British owners have been dickering to sell out. Last week's ceremony in the Salon Blanco of the Casa Rosada (Government House), where Economic Czar Miguel Miranda and British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper (for the British shareholders) signed the bill of sale, finally ended the negotiations...
...telephone company purchase a few weeks earlier (TIME, Sept. 16). The same Argentine officials crowded the Salón Blanco at Government House, the same newsreel cameras ground away. Juan Perón was present, smart in a grey lounge suit. Then British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper stepped forward to sign his Government's new trade agreement with Argentina...
...other ambassadors presented themselves last week to Argentina's no-longer-isolated Government. Britain's Sir Reginald Leeper docked in the fog to report "great interest [in Britain] in the Argentine market." When Brazil's João Baptista Luzardo arrived at B.A.'s Lacroze railway station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian...
...insistence that the hostages must be freed before discussions on permanent peace could begin. The unity of EAM was also threatened. The ELD (Union of Popular Democracy), second most powerful party in the EAM coalition, announced that it was breaking away, would confer independently with British Ambassador Reginald Leeper. Professor Alexander Svolos, white-haired, respected ex-leader of EAM's Provisional Government during its 18-month existence, called for immediate peace. The Salonika branch of the SKE (Socialist Party, another large group), also broke away from...