Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise candidate of the Left is Juan Antonio Ríos, an ambitious, seasoned Radical politico. The Popular Front, which leaked badly during President Aguirre's administration and went to pieces at his death, has been patched up and should carry Ríos to victory. A big questionmark, however, is Chile's independent electorate-a full quarter of her voters. Many of them are small businessmen who did not like the last Popular Front administration. If enough of them should swing to Ibáñez, neither candidate may get a clear majority since there...
When the Governor of Entre Ríos Province, Enrique Mihura, entered a vigorous protest, Acting President Castillo made his position even clearer...
...President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting of Luis Angel Firpo knocking...
...Army officers from the following branches of the Army have been assigned to the School as students at government expense: Quartermaster Corps, Air Corps, Ordnance Department, Signal Corps, Medical Department, Chemical Warfare Service, Finance Department, Cavalry, and Infantry. Among regular Army officers on active duty who are now graduates OS the Business School are not less than one Major General, four Brigadier Generals, twelve Colonels, thirty-nine Lieutenant Colonels, twenty eight Majors, and seventeen Captains. In addition, there are over a hundred reserve officers who are graduates of the School on duty in the various Supply Arms and Services...
...Boca ("The Mouth"), a bedraggled, crowded, riverside quarter of corrugated iron shacks, docks, fish markets, is regarded by Porteños (colloquial for citizens of Buenos Aires) as the Montmartre of Buenos Aires. There, for many years, Quinquela Martín has painted La Boca's muscular sailors and barnacled boats, exhibiting his work in a little combination school and museum near his home. When, a few years ago, La Boca jocularly declared itself a republic, it elected First Citizen Quinquela Martín its president...