Word: ortizes
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...intrigue and maneuvering which swirled through the Mansión Presidential accomplished little. Ailing President Roberto Morcelino Ortiz, one eye blinded with the diabetes which forced him out of office on sick leave, blinked and did nothing. Tough, leathery old Vice President Ramon S. Castillo was running the Government to suit himself, yet no one knew for how long. Argentina was still a country without a leader...
...past four years, the President and Vice President are on opposite sides of the political fence. Though Argentina is split into as many factions as pre-World War II France, most of its politicians belong to one of two main groups: the Radicals of President Ortiz of the Conservatives of Vice President Castillo, behind whom stands the powerful figure of onetime President Augustin P. Justo. The Radicals have a New Dealish tinge; the Conservatives believe in government by the privileged and are traditionally pro-British...
Enigma in the Pink House. Roberto Ortiz, who may be the caudillo of his country if his health lets him, was on the point of accomplishing a revolutionary ambition when illness struck him down...
...Ortiz Tirado, was the centre of attention at a long table containing top Mexican stars, movie executives, tycoons, socialites. The adolescent Mexican movie industry had put on one of its first party dresses for a minor emissary of its big sister to the north...
Cautiously, like a colony of Patagonian crabs, they began to sidle ahead sideways. When Ortiz resigned, they joined his supporters in voting to refuse his resignation, thereby clearing his honor of any stain. At the same time they gained the cooperation of the Socialists in insisting that President Ortiz revise his Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff...