Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approved Argentine fashion, the union's officers had taken their demands to the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, the preserve of María Eva Duarte de Perón. The secretariat, acting on hold-the-line advice from the nation's new economic council, met the union's demands only halfway. When their Peronista officers failed to protest, the union's rank & file revolted...
Special Treatment. They called a "progressive" strike (an hour's work stoppage the first night, 1½ hours the second, etc.). Eva Perón's Democracia got special treatment: a stoppage plus a slowdown. For strikebreakers, Eva called in convicts from Buenos Aires' federal penitentiary. The convicts refused to work. Democracia was among the first papers to suspend publication...
...inhabitants of Buenos Aires soon found out what a newspaper-less city is like. Business was hard hit. Rumors (including one that President Perón had resigned his office) replaced legitimate news...
Among the rumors there was one that had some substance. According to it, the army, which in the long run calls the tune in Argentina, had handed Perón a list of demands. Among them: 1) make Evita drop all political activity; 2) form a new cabinet retaining only War Minister Humberto Sosa Molina, Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia and Interior Minister Angel C. Borlenghi; 3) forget the foreign policy hokum of a "third position"-between the capitalist U.S. and Communist Russia-and patch up relations with the U.S. and Britain; 4) take immediate steps to stop inflation...
...Tenant. What lent some authority to the story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration...