Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Juan Perón last week staged the most remarkable public circus of his spectacular career. His show had a little of everything. In the early hours of Thursday morning radio bulletins began shrilling news of a conspiracy to murder Perón. The assassination, broadcasters cried, was to have occurred on the "Day of the Race," Oct. 12, at an opera gala in the gilt-and-plush Teatro Colón. His wife, blonde Eva Duarte Perón, was to have been killed with...
...from the outlying industrial districts. Many a worker, by the time he reached the Plaza de Mayo, had also been equipped with a sign bearing a Peronista slogan. Others carried loops of rope, or miniature gallows-a meaningful reminder of the bitter speech at Santa Fé in which Perón talked of hanging his enemies (TIME, Sept...
...bright spring sunlight the crowds milled about the plaza cheering Perón, who finally appeared on a balcony of the Casa Rosada in company with wife Eva and Minister of Interior Angel C. Borlenghi. Perón plunged into a half-screaming account of the "conspiracy." "Traitors to the country" had plotted his death, he shouted, because "international capitalists desire...
Savagely attacking John Griffiths, who has been living in Montevideo, as "an international spy," Perón said that the plot itself was hatched outside Argentina. (The scurrilous afternoon paper La Epoca promptly headlined ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT ORDERED FROM...
...Secretary of Agriculture, wrote a small book which quietly predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not at all improbable. Its empirical conclusions do not deserve oblivion in the creseen do of excited oratory, for Louis Bean has not as yet been wrong by more than 1 per cent in 12 years of predicting elections...