Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carol and his Magda, still exiling in Brazil, made a rare public appearance to goggle at royalty. The high-styled Braganzas, descendants of Brazil's second and last Emperor Dom Pedro II, were staging a circus. Dom João tamed lions, Princess Tereza played an Amazon, a couple of other princesses rode bareback. (The Brazilian Air Minister's nephew tried riding an elephant, but fell off and sprained his elbow.) Dom Pedro Henrique, the Pretender himself, boycotted the show: he was squabbling with the family over money matters...
Between blowoffs, Gonzalez ran a law practice, served off & on in Congress and did his share of hard work in building up the Radical machine. In 1937, he was a key figure in the creation of the leftist Popular Front (Radicals, Socialists, Communists) which the next year put liberal Pedro Aguirre Cerda in the presidency. As a reward, Gonzalez went to France as Ambassador-which probably cost him the presidency in 1942. For Juan Antonio Rios captured control of the Radical Party in his absence (and after Aguirre Cerda's death) and Gonzalez' hurried return from Vichy, three...
...Formula. Politics he heard about mostly from his sons. Guillermo, 22 and just back from a year's compulsory military service, was an enthusiastic Peronista. Gerardo, 18, studying at the university to become a chartered accountant, because Pedro had determined that one of his sons should have the benefit of a good education, was anti-Perón, as most university students. The brothers squabbled endlessly over Perón's foreign projects, domestic reforms...
Installment payments took a painful $13 monthly, for Pedro, like most porteños, bought the family clothes (including his own neat, dark suit) on a ten payment credit plan. Lately Pedro had turned a few pesos by keeping books for a nearby almacén (store), and this, with the $35 a month earned by elder son Guillermo, brought the Pisani budget into precarious balance. Pedro shuddered to think of what would happen if sickness struck his home...
Such talk confused Pedro, the kind of man who took his wife to the movies twice a month and walked in the park with his twelve-year-old daughter on Sundays. His simple political philosophy: "I worked 20-odd years, and management never did much for me. Now, since the revolution I got a pay increase, a bonus, and an old-age pension. Perón did that. I voted...