Word: mirandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records for dullness of plot, static action, and generally bad performances, the latest issuance from the gloomy den of the Twentieth Century foxes is one of the most puerile movies ever to mesmerize a squirming audience. Newly blonde Vivian Blaine, Adler-elevated Perry Como, and hat-heavy Carmen Miranda stumble through ninety confused minutes of political campaigns and corny musical numbers untempered by the inclusion of Harry James' fine trumpet and the funny gags of Phil Silvers. "If I'm Lucky" is a sleepy picture that certainly does not deserve its feature spot on the program...
...financial and economic dictator of Argentina," crowed Miguel Miranda to a friend last week. As Juan Perón's closest adviser and president of Argentina's newly nationalized Central Bank (TIME, April 8), the portly, fiftyish tin-can manufacturer was feeling his oats. A sweeping governmental decree had just handed him such economic power as few men had held outside Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy...
...bank deposits and practically all loans were placed under Central Bank control. Henceforth, Miranda's bank would make all the decisions that individual bankers used to make. The Central Bank would merely pay them for handling deposits for it. Thus, when Juan Perón took office June 4, his government would get control of $2 billion in deposits (just when it needed a billion to meet expenses), would have a hammer lock on credit that would permit withholding loans from individuals or institutions...
...Heinrich Dörge, reputedly the favorite disciple of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Schacht's right-hand man in running Germany's famed Industrial Credit Bank. Just after Pearl Harbor, Dörge had drifted to Argentina via the U.S. and Chile. He reportedly became Miranda's confidant and idea-man in his rise to power with...
Juan Peron took satisfaction in dealing a swift kick to the men he once called "those 500 bums in the Stock Exchange." To run the new bank the Argentine strong man picked stout, fiftyish Miguel Miranda, who learned to take orders long ago as president of the government-controlled Industrial Bank. Out of their positions as head of the Stock Exchange and of the potent Industrial Union (equivalent to the National Association of Manufacturers) went Eustaquio Mendez Delfino and Luis Colombo, whose opposition to Peron's campaign-timed bonus and wage-rise decrees had not been forgiven. Into their...