Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shorn of his parliamentary immunity, Cattáneo was immediately subject to arrest on the new criminal charge of "disrespect" to the President. Two former Radical deputies, Ernesto Sammartino and Agustín Rodríguez Araya, previously ejected from the Chamber, had set him an example by fleeing to...
Soon after he disappeared, Cattáneo presented to the Congress, by mail, support of his charges that Perón had grown rich in office. Listing the names and addresses of business firms which he said could confirm his statements, he described the President's San Vicente country...
For months, President Perón has been steadily tightening the screw on such opposition as still exists in Argentina. Oppressive new laws have been ground out by a congress systematically weakened by the liquidation of opposition deputies. Over 20 anti-Perón periodicals have been closed up in...
Going even further, his loyal wife, Evita, indicated last week that she thought the present kind of opposition little short of blasphemy. In a rousing speech to a women's trade-union group, she cried: "I sometimes think that President Perón has ceased to be a man...
The U.S. recognized the new government of Panama last week. But, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson implied at his press conference, this merely meant an admission by the U.S. that brazen Arnulfo Arias had caught the brass ring on Panama's political merry-go-round. "The act of...