Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prince next popped up in 1940 wearing the uniform of De Gaulle's Free French air force. Soon afterward he went to Argentina, where he teamed with old friend Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker who had also bet on the wrong fascist. Mandl, now doing business with Peron, put Starhemberg up in style, but the prince yearned for his own acres...
...women met in President Peron's office. "She was elegantly dressed," writes Fleur, "as millions of American women would like to be dressed. The only giveaway was the orchid in her lapel [see cut]. No real flower that, but one of diamonds, larger even than an orchid, about five inches across by seven inches high-a brooch of big, pure white diamonds that must have been worth $250,000. Barrel earclips of diamond baguettes and her ball-like diamond ring were minor accessories by contrast...
...displayed a willingness (later, eagerness) to talk 'girl talk' about clothes, jewelry, coiffure . . . She kept eying the jewel I wore. Peron winked at me and said in his halting English: 'That's one she can't have.' " When Fleur remarked that Evita's hair was "very becoming worn straight and simply, she asked if I would look at pictures of her in the many ways she'd worn it." Big photographs were spread on the floor. Fleur looked them all over and pronounced Evita's latest hairdo her best. "Evita asked...
...years ago its plant was padlocked for alleged reselling of newsprint-though the difference between what the newspaper bought and what it used had been less than eleven ounces. Then Peron expropriated Editor Torino's personal property, and a Salta judge slapped a lien on his bank account. Torino fought back, brought out a mimeographed edition of El Intransigente, and appealed for help to the Inter-American Press Association. Peron declined to let the Association's commission into Argentina, then jailed Torino for running his clandestine paper and for "disrespect" toward the Salta judge...
...lawyer was thrown in jail for "disrespect." Torino's doctor, who got permission to move Torino to a Salta hospital for a hernia operation last month, also landed in jail. His offense: protesting when the authorities ordered Torino back to jail only four days after the operation. Peron even found a way to send El Intransigente to jail. By terms of his expropriation decree, the mechanical plant of the newspaper was presented to the Salta jail for its job-printing department...