Word: maras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journeyed by road to Sevastopol, where there are many ruins, and flew on the wings of his Army to the land of Egypt. And there he took ship and received the rulers of that land, and of Ethiopia and of Saudi Arabia, on the lakes called Bitter or Mara of which it was written (Exodus...
Velazco mobilized the entire police force, hunted high & low. He did not find Aguirre Cámara or his printing plant. On schedule, the pamphlet appeared. Entitled Demagogia, Inflación y Armamentismo (Demagoguery, Inflation and Militarism), it passed through the mails in envelopes like those used by Government agencies. Before the police woke up to the trick, it had reached a wide audience. A single copy now brings as much as 1,000 pesos...
Cheap Demagoguery. Aguirre Cámara pulled no punches. Damning the Government as totalitarian, he predicted that it would lead Argentina into inflation and militarism. Blasting powerful Vice President Juan Domingo Perón, he deflated his "love of the workingman" as demagoguery...
Aguirre Cámara comes of an old family in Córdoba Province. In both political and private life his record is so blameless that even the slugging nationalist press of Buenos Aires has not been able to smear him. His aged patrician mother still chooses his clothes. When he was Finance Minister of Córdoba, he gave her his paycheck every week, like a boy on his first...
Many Argentines are inclined to be contemptuous of the oppositionists who thunder at the Government from safety across the river in Montevideo. They admire Aguirre Cámara for remaining in Argentina. Last week the police had not caught him yet. When they questioned his mother, she drew herself up proudly. "Go ahead and look for him," she said. "You won't find him. I've put him in the hands of God, who knows he is fighting for the salvation of his country...