Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perón knew that he had to get rid of Velazco. Diplomatic observers saw it as the quid pro quo for Braden's resignation. Velazco represented the extreme anti-U.S. feeling in Argentina; his barb-tongued champions of "national dignity" continued to hack at Perón's new, conciliatory foreign policy...
...Perón was deep in Velazco's debt. Back in 1944, Velazco police had charged, sabers swinging, into the Buenos Aires crowds which had turned a mass celebration of the liberation of Paris into a tumultuous demonstration against Perón's pro-Nazi military regime. A year later, police and nationalists had sprung Juan Perón back to power after spontaneous democratic clamor forced him into a brief, one-day exile...
...this President Perón remembered last week as he strode through the heavily carpeted chambers of the Casa Rosada, chain-smoking strong "43" cigarets, trying to make up his mind. His decision was finally made between ballet numbers in Buenos Aires' rococo Teatro Colón. He dispatched quaking Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi to the block-square police headquarters in Calle Moreno to hand Velazco his ultimatum. Borlenghi had reason to quake; Velazco had publicly slapped him only four months before...
Instead, Greening landed in the Italian P.W. camp at Chieti, and there learned that art sometimes pays. For Greening it paid a pack of cigarets or a can of jam per portrait of his fellow prisoners. "On lean days," Greening remembers, "my roommates and I would eat jam until we were sick. Sometimes when the food ran out all over we'd give the jam back to the guys it came from." Greening also staged an art show in an unused latrine, which was held over "by popular demand...
...successor to veteran Editor Percy Cole, another onetime newsman, Tom O'Donoghue will boss a staff of 18 crack (180 words per min. or better) shorthand reporters. They work in pairs-15 minutes at a stretch-in the curtained press gallery above the Speaker's chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying...