Word: oppositionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coat. He had time only to say: "Shirtless companions" when the crowd shouted: "The coat, the coat!" Perón laughed, took it off and launched into a speech in his old rabble-rousing manner. He praised his regime, gently chided the workers for having stoned the building of oppositionist La Prensa on their way to the Plaza. Then, just before Government functionaries passed around cookies and candies as gifts from Evita, Perón declared the following day a holiday...
...wire from Buenos Aires, where Peronistas are out to get rid of Argentina's two biggest dailies by annoying them to death (TIME, March 31). The sum of A.P.'s dispatch was that the Government had sued to collect multimillion-dollar duties on newsprint that oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere to lay Juan...
...square in front of one opposition party's headquarters was patrolled by pickets whose function Premier Petru Groza described as 'protection of the opposition,' but whom one Government spokesman called 'overzealous workers.' I saw 20 overzealous workers beat an oppositionist within an inch of his life...
...decisions in close West Virginia, Wisconsin and Missouri races. Coupled with at least fair G.O.P. chances in California, Montana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Wyoming, this edge in the corn country might be the force which would put Massachusetts' Joe Martin the Speaker's Chair, and seat the first oppositionist President of the Senate since the Civil...
...with unpopularity of the O.P.A. and the current red scare providing the impetus. The loss of Henry Wallace will produce the same result at the other extreme. Yet the question remains whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist sweep. For nothing less will give the Republicans control of the House and Senate and their first clear electoral victory since 1928. Nothing less than this sweep will pit one branch of the government against the other in a standoff...