Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, Argentina's Peronistas have been trying to wreck it. They noisily protested that I.A.P.A. was "created by the United States to dominate newspapers in the Western Hemisphere." A fortnight ago, when I.A.P.A.'s eleven-nation board met in Panama, it passed a stinging resolution condemning Peron's seizure of La Prensa, Argentina's once-great independent newspaper. The board also drafted a newsprint-sharing plan to help Latin American publications, leaving Argentina out in the cold...
Since 1933, Ultramar Petroleum, a joint subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum and the Texas Co., has been refining crude oil shipped into Argentina from Colombia and the Gulf of Mexico area, and marketing the finished products through 1,500 affiliated outlets. But when Juan Peron, who has never encouraged foreign investments in Argentina, refused to let Ultramar take out its profits in dollars, it had no incentive to improve the property. The refinery (Argentina has only 17 others) became obsolescent, and millions of dollars were needed to modernize...
...trophy in Cuba. Originally donated by Argentina, the cup had been renamed in memory of Cuban Player Juan Queseda, a contestant who died of a heart attack while the tournament was in progress. Reshevsky's truculent explanation for wanting the trophy: "Because the cup was donated by Peron for the winner, not for Cubans...
...Mosig calls first upon the 225 elect whom he subdivides into the Managers, the Influencers, and the Scientists. Among these are Douglas MacArthur, Henry Luce, Pandit Nehru, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Plus XII, General Ridgway, Eddie Rickenbacker, J. Edgar Hoover, King Farouk, Walt Disney, Greta Garbo, Evita Peron, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy Thompson. He claims that he sent a copy of his pamphlet to each one of these...
Adelante charged that PerÓon had advanced the date for the presidential elections, originally scheduled for this month, to last November, because he knew he could never win under present economic conditions. Now, it added bitterly, Peron suddenly calls for sacrifices and promises persecution of profiteers. "He forgets that around him . . . are persons who have enriched themselves unscrupulously...