Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a mighty political juggernaut, the President's train plowed through the South last week. All observers (and even some of the principals) agreed that the President left in his wake the wreckage of the anti-fourth term movement...
...Finance Ministry forbade movement into the country of all capital not destined for bona fide commercial uses: i.e., no more "hot money." U.S. bankers guessed that this decree would still allow foreigners to put their funds into "conservative" securities, such as Government and industrial bonds, but that investments in stocks would be carefully watched...
...movement has the use of Spanish diplomatic mails and codes. It has plenty of money, the support of thinly disguised Italian and German propaganda and sabotage organizations in Argentina and throughout Latin America. Perhaps more important than any of these is the support of the Church, which to many Argentines is unmistakably identified with the aims and progress of Hispanidad...
Lately the movement has received fresh and ironical support-from the U.S. Government itself. When Argentines read and hear that the U.S. is now appeasing Dictator Franco, they can hardly believe that Franco's Hispanidad is as bad as U.S. spokesmen make...
...Gaullist movement has found its loveliest voice. She sang last week at a new Manhattan cabaret, the Blue Angel, opened by balding, long-nosed, toothy Herbert Jacoby, ex-secretary to France's imprisoned ex-Premier Leon Blum. Chic as a Paris bandbox, its jet-black walls garnished with white lilies and orchids, the Blue Angel gave off more than a suggestion of the smarter mortuaries. But it ceased to be funereal when a swarm of De Gaullist refugees and friends produced an opening-night crush of such confusion that New York Daily News Columnist Danton Walker...