Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
When big, friendly Businessman James Bruce checked in last year as U.S. ambassador at Buenos Aires, he had high hopes that the U.S. could do business with Argentina. He learned a little Spanish, hit it off so well with President Juan Peron that the two were soon back-slapping each other...
...personal friendliness could not soften the hard reality that Argentina was running out of dollars and smack into a first-rate financial crisis. Moreover, the Peron plan of exacting heavy tribute from hungry Europe for Argentine produce was beginning to backfire...
...Anticipating the National elections, Argentina's President Peron rattled the bones of his nation's long dispute with Britain over...
...part of its make-friends-with-Peron policy, the U.S. Army rolled out the red carpet last week for Argentina's No. i military man, War Minister Jose Humberto Sosa Molina. Bulky (225 Ibs.), beribboned Sosa Molina loved it. In four days of Washington wining and dining he got on the outside of everything from filet mignon (at a dinner given by Army Secretary Kenneth Royall) to Army 5-in-1 rations (at the Quartermaster General's experimental kitchen). Brisk, soldierly and correct, he went out of his way to make friends, one day waddled into the White...