Word: per
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Argentina's First Lady Eva Duarte de Perón was on the way to becoming First Lady of Argentina's press. Last week she took over her third Buenos Aires newspaper, Noticias-Grdficas, and the capital had a good time with the story of how Evita swung the deal...
...many quarters this news will come as an unpleasant and unexpected blow. Only a short time after the Saltonstall Committee was set up, in the Spring of 1947, a Student Council poll showed that 98.2 per cent of the College favored a utilitarian memorial, and that 50.4 per cent specifically wished for an activities center. Thirty-seven out of 43 undergraduate groups endorsed such a project. From that Spring forward, the Council and other College groups have pushed for a home for displaced College organizations...
Dominate or Liquidate. In the end, Perón abruptly put the brakes on his own oratory, told the crowd to be calm. He had the patience, he said, "to dominate the agitators, or liquidate them if necessary." Before the crowd went home it had one more treat: Evita announced that she would willingly die "a thousand times" for the cause of the people...
...Juan Perón was seriously worried by strains within his regime, his show had given him a good chance to warn his enemies that he could still produce a potent mob of the faithful on short notice. Thus, the plot might be worth whatever it might cost in bad relations with the U.S. In any case, Juan Perón proved that he still knows how to polish off a general strike: he declared next day a general holiday, so everybody could rest...
...Catholics argue that: 1) they are taxed to support public education; 2) they also support their own schools; 3) these schools save other U.S. taxpayers some $400,000,000 a year in additional taxes. (Catholic schools save the taxpayers much more than their actual $182,250,000 cost per year, because their operating expenses are less than half the public-school average...