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...Argentine people were prepared for the worst when President Pedro Aramburu and Finance Minister Roberto Verrier went on the air last week-and the worst is just what they got. In blunt introductory remarks, the President lambasted both "egotistical businessmen" and workers who believe "that the supreme social achievement is well-paid laziness." Then he turned the microphone over to Economist Verrier, who told the story in terms of pesos. Argentina, according to the minister's figures, is consuming and featherbedding its way to 'bankruptcy...
When the proclamation announcing Franco's fourth Cabinet in 20 years (the others: 1936, 1945, 1951) appeared three days later, the big surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain's downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring...
ARGENTINA By June 20, 1958 A general who seized presidential power by force promised flatly last week that he would freely set it aside, and put a deadline on his promise. Said President Pedro Aramburu, on a speechmaking tour of southern Argentina: "This government expects to deliver power to legally constituted authorities by June 20, 1958 at the latest...
...produce works which had not previously been given in the United States. For seven years they concentrated on foreign works, but in 1924 it decided that "the trouble with the American theater is that it is not American," and began to make Harvard theater more American by producing "Pedro the King," written by a resident of Cambridge...
...Argentine army has 48 active generals, and with a few exceptions they regard the nation's politics and policies as wide open to comment, advice and meddling. Last week President Pedro Aramburu, who (though he is a general himself) believes that the army's functions should be confined to national defense, sacked at least 12 meddlesome generals, including the army commander, and appeared ready to dismiss even more...