Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After several jittery weeks, Juan and Eva Perón seemed more like their old selves again. In fact, they were operating so smoothly last week that it was hard to believe that only three weeks ago Peron was wobbling under army pressure while Evita was in danger of being eased out of public life...
Second, the lower per-picture-cost enables printing of more pictures than before and of action photographs of men making the news instead of stock cuts...
...General José Humberto Sosa Molina, was named to the new post of Defense Minister, in charge of air, naval and ground forces. Army pressure unquestionably had been a decisive factor in forcing onetime Economic Czar Miguel Miranda out of office and probably could do the same thing to Perón, if the army chose to. At week's end, Buenos Aires sources reported that the President had already suggested that he resign, only to be told to stay where he was and see the trouble through. The army might fire a president when it was good & ready...
...banquets and speeches in half a dozen countries (and by a small fire in his private plane as it flew over Colombia), reached a new high in Argentina. He and his wife were honor guests at a four-hour luncheon at the Buenos Aires country place of Juan Perón. After lunch, Juan gave Bertie a medal, a diploma and a well-phrased pat on the back: "This medal ... is presented to honest men. I award it to you as an honest man who directs honest institutions which report the news of Argentina and Latin America honestly and accurately...
Among the 24 people and institutions nominated for the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize ("every candidate [must] be proposed in writing by some duly qualified person"): Eleanor Roosevelt, Columnist Drew Pearson, Juan Perón and wife...