Word: militarizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grosso. He describes his father as "a small businessman and later a public functionary-but always poor." Young Eurico joined the army at 16 and wangled an appointment to its Preparatory School of Tactics at Porto Alegre. After graduation, he moved on to Rio's Escóla Militar, only to be expelled seven months later for his part in a student rebellion against compulsory smallpox vaccination. A government amnesty let him return. Two years after graduation he was a cavalry lieutenant, apparently destined for the usual army career-25 years a captain, then retirement. Then he met & married...
Gallegos was held under protective custody in the Escuela Militar; other prominent Acción Democratistas fled to foreign embassies for sanctuary. Betancourt went into hiding. But the vast majority of the party's politicians and labor leaders were clapped into jail. Union funds were seized by the army. Newspapers were ordered to hew strictly to the army's line, and an almost continuous radio barrage of pro-junta propaganda helped to sell the coup to the country...
...marched into the little enclosure, saluted, marched out. There was applause for the Brazilians, the Argentines, the Colombians. Then applause grew louder. It became a roar. High on the cliffside, men shouted "Hi! Hi! Hi!" It had been no mistake after all. Next to cadets from their own Colegio Militar, Mexicans had given the five white-uniformed West Pointers the biggest hand...
...Circulo Militar, the Argentine Army officers' club in B.A., is stiff and dignified enough to be mistaken for the Foreign Office on the other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that...
...produce dealer, at 18 had his own small prospering business in tropical Cordoba. In his twenties he was star salesman in Mexico City for General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, Ohio, and sold the firm's largest order in Mexico: material for Mexico's West Point-Colegio Militar de Mexico...