Word: peronista
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...inflation ate up their original pay rises, the workers turned again to the Peróns for help. Last November, the railway union, a much-favored Peronista outfit, demanded new increases. They were stalled off. Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started. The official press charged that the strikers were Reds. "We're not Communists," shouted pickets. "We're hungry Peronistas...
...Good Angel. As Evita has moved in, she has surrounded the President more & more with her own men, most of them servile mediocrities ready to leap at her bidding. She gives daily orders to ministers, governors and Congressmen, patches up party squabbles, runs her own Peronista women's party (a potential 4,000,000 new votes), bosses the C.G.T., receives workers' delegations, inaugurates public institutions, and-three times a week at the Labor Ministry-dishes out sympathy, advice and loo-peso notes to the poor...
...million a year, Evita runs the enterprise as casually as a bride's personal checking account. She is not required to make any accounting, and operates a capricious charitable monopoly with strong overtones of propaganda. In Buenos Aires, she has a warehouse bulging with clothes, shoes and Peronista tracts for the deserving. On the theory that nothing is too good for the poor, she has built wastefully expensive homes for the aged, for working girls, for indigent mothers...
...frame up a case, a Peronista-packed Parliamentary Commission had dug through La Prensa's files for a month in search of irregularities. Pickings were evidently slim. The worst crime the commission could find to charge against the newspaper was that it used the United Press news service, and paid the U.P. $8,000 a week; that proved that La Prensa was a foreign-bossed enterprise...
...mourning day, three days later, newspapers, press clubs and radio stations all through the Western Hemisphere lowered their flags. Buenos Aires' doughty La Natión, Argentina's last important independent daily, noted the demonstration in a brief, straightforward account. But the Peronista La Epoca set the note for the rest of Argentina's press: "Yellow journalists and gangsters are lowering the flag of piracy...