Word: mirandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tenant. What lent some authority to the story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration...
...Faces. Two little-known men, Dr. Roberto Antonio Ares, 35, and Dr. Alfredo Gomez Morales, 39, were made Secretaries of Economy and Finance, respectively. Unlike Miranda, both believed that the world market was a buyers' & sellers' market, not a sellers' market only. Miranda got the formal title of "technical assessor to the chief of state...
Many an Argentine hesitated to accept La Prensa's conclusion that Miranda was a dead duck. They had not forgotten that 18 months ago, when he swapped his job as head of the Central Bank for the chairmanship of the Economic Council, he had become stronger than ever. Perhaps he could do it again. But if half the stories circulating in Buenos Aires were true, Don Miguel was really out this time. Recent cabinet meetings, according to these stories, had become very stormy every time economic matters were discussed. Even Miranda's underlings in the Central Bank...
...would henceforth manage the Bank and IAPI had served under Bramuglia the greater part of their political lives, Ares as economic chief in the Foreign Office, Morales as Bramuglia's assistant at Bogota' and Paris. If their appointments meant anything, they foreshadowed a break from Miranda's rigid selling policies...
...part, the President went out of his way to show that he had acted without personal rancor in dispensing with Miranda's public services. On the day after the shuffle, when Peron received the Mexican decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...