Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of the dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
When he was elected President of Argentina in 1946, Juan Domingo Perón had two visible means of political support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop...
Squirrels & Scabs. The night before, the government had rounded up workers from the mint and other government printing offices, rushed them down to the plants of the pro-government El Mundo and La Fronda. While police guarded the buildings with machine guns, and Evita Perón's Social Aid Foundation (for the destitute and aged) rushed in bedding and food, the esquiroles (squirrels, i.e., strikebreakers) kept the newspaper blackout from being complete. But the single editions they turned out contained little more than cheesecake pictures and ready-made material including an editorial entitled "Three Years of Legality." Neither...
...percent of those eating in Dining Halls would find their 21 meals costing them $1.75 more than the present rate, while 35 percent would save 25 cents weekly by skipping seven College meals, and ten percent of College diners would save only $2.25 by skipping 14 College meals per week...
Since the average student at present eats only 16 meals per week in College Dining Halls, those who eat more than 16 meals per week are subsidized by those who eat less. Therein lies the injustice of the present system. Yet the optional contract system would afford little saving even to the minority who wish to eat less than the average 16 meals weekly. Those who think it would be cheaper to eat all their meals at beaneries around the Square might prove their point only at the risk of ptomaine poisoning or malnutrition, while men who eat at clubs...