Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did all this prove? Perón made no effort to disprove Deputy Cattaneo's general contention that Peronistas were getting rich in office, and he did not list his own present wealth-or his wife's. But in attacking Cattáneo and the newspapers, Perón left little doubt that his final aim was to smash the last two citadels of a free press in Argentina and rid himself of every last vestige of opposition...
...Senator Saadi rose rapidly -to chairman of an important committee, then to floor leader of the Peronista majority. But one day he made a little mistake; during a closed session of the Senate he arose to object to the presence of "an outsider." The outsider happened to be Eva Per...
Soon after that, President Juan Perón called Saadi to the Casa Rosada and told him that he had been chosen as the strongest possible Peronista candidate to run for governor of Catamarca province...
...signal honor and there was no practical way to refuse. Saadi quit as senator, was easily elected governor, then settled down to build his personal following in remote Catamarca. Presently he learned that Catamarca was perhaps not quite remote enough. From the capital came private word that President Perón was being urged to oust him on charges of graft and mismanagement...
...protect himself, Saadi thought up a quick, slick deal. He assembled his legislature, submitted his resignation as governor, then had the deputies re-elect him to his old job in the Senate. But President Perón was quicker. He intervened (i.e., dismissed the governor and legislature) in Catamarca and dated the intervention back 24 hours, thus nullifying Saadi's maneuvers...