Word: peronism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Remorino. Under cover of darkness, they carried a grapefruit-size grenade toward the lonely curb where the car was parked, only to find that two cops had settled down in the car to escape a steady drizzle. The policemen chased and arrested the pair, winning $10.000 in rewards from Peron...
...arrested men turned out to be wealthy conservatives in opposition to Peron's regime. They were hauled off to the 17th precinct station, where the electric needle is one of the approved methods for extracting information. Soon they implicated other Buenos Aires socialites. who apparently thought amateurish bomb-throwing would somehow shake Peron (actually it seems to have strengthened his regime). The cops arrested about 225 other solid Argentine citizens-"oligarchs," the press called them-seizing many plain and fancy weapons (military rifles, big-game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically...
...Peron had by no means captured all Argentina's bomb-setters, as another noisy burst at week's end showed. Nor was it yet known who-in or out of the government -set off the bombs in mid-April which inspired the burning by Peronistas of the famed old Jockey Club (TIME, April 27). Said the President: "Other terrorists can always rise. I will combat them with all my force. My job is being a general, and therefore, to fight, and my only desire is to die with my boots...
From his balcony on May Day, Juan Peron declared war on the big U.S. news agencies. The Associated Press, the United Press and the International News Service, he shouted, "have represented the Argentine situation as a situation of crisis . . . through an infamous campaign of lies." Last week he struck...
Buenos Aires' once great independent newspaper. La Nation, muffled but not silenced by Peron. quit printing A.P. and New York Times service reports. The government canceled the U.P.'s right to use radio facilities to transmit news to 16 provincial newspaper clients. By week's end, dispatches from the three big U.S. news services had disappeared from Argentine newspapers...