Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Commerce Department official, Charles C. Concannon '11, a division chief in that Office of International Trade, added that men who approach the top rauks of federal civil service receive a retirement allowance of from $4800 to $5000 per year...
...Annex also announced that it would increase scholarship awards to an amount 14 percent above the current total. President W. K. Jordan said the scholarship increase "reflects precisely the 14 per cent rise in tuition charge," and that 'Cliffe loan funds were ample to meet the increase...
...Since the majority leader has now so brazenly admitted that this convention was called only for the purpose of re-electing General Perón," he shouted, "we can no longer take part in this farcical debate." As one man, the 48 Radicals tore up their copies of the new constitution, flung the pieces in the Peronistas' faces and marched out. "We shall return," declaimed Lebensohn over his shoulder. "We shall yet return to write another constitution...
...next day, Peronistas were cockier than ever. At the army's vast Campo de Mayo base, the President and his blonde wife were ostentatiously received by their recent critic, Defense Secretary José Humberto Sosa Molina. In a speech dripping with consideration for Señora Perón, Sosa Molina said: "The significance of her presence among us as a special guest of honor is nothing but a stout denial of rumors that picture the army as opposing...
Lockout. What, Argentines wondered, had become of la Señora's reported vendetta with the Defense Secretary? What about the army's warnings to the President? The Peróns had obviously come to terms with the military brass. But what were the terms? Even the best-informed porteños did not know. But there were some guesses. Among the best: 1) Evita would gradually retire from public life; and 2) Perón would follow a more hard-boiled attitude toward labor...