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President Pedro Ramirez' tight little military oligarchy disbanded 13 civilian organizations last week. One was a United Nations bandage-wrapping society, another a German culture club, still another a youth movement that hated both Nazis and Communists but loved the British...
...promiscuity, nor was it cursed by any desire to upset political tradition. It was a healthy little revolution; there was no need to tag it "liberal." If there had been fears in some quarters, obviously they were unfounded. All signs were reassuring to the righteous. During the week President Pedro Ramirez stepped out boldly...
...Buenos Aires Pedro Ramirez was asked if he considered himself a democrat. Said he: "What Argentina...
...military coup which sent Castillo back into obscurity had, in proud Argentina, all the earmarks of a revolt in a banana republic. Early one morning 7,000 troops moved out of the Campo de Mayo barracks to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Led by General Arturo Rawson and General Pedro Ramirez, who had been Minister of War in Castillo's Cabinet, the troops fired a few shots at the city's outskirts, turned down the Calle Blandengues until they reached the Palermo race track. There newsboys were already hawking editions of Noticias Graficas, which headlined: "REVOLUTION SUCCESSFUL." Fanning...
California's Consolidated Steel Corp. Ltd. this week flopped the frigate U.S.S. San Pedro into the Pacific Ocean, wrote down a fat new total of ship launchings -268. With satisfaction the 40,000 Consolidated employes (up from 800 in 1938) went to work to add a white star to their blue Maritime Commission "M" flag...