Word: peronistas
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...velvet-curtained room off the Capitolio's Senate chamber, three Peronista Senators were quietly but efficiently remaking the Argentine judiciary. Their power stemmed from a previously unnoticed paragraph in the new Peron constitution (TIME, March 29) which provided that all federal justices be confirmed by the Senate. The clause, as interpreted by the Senate, was retroactive; it covered all sitting judges as well as new appointees...
More tragic was the reaction of 73-year-old Dr. Alberto F. Jordan, presiding judge of the Buenos Aires civil high court. When a Senate telegram told him that he had not been confirmed, the old man went into his study, pulled out a revolver and shot himself. The Peronista press ignored his death. Even Buenos Aires' once-great and independent La, Prensa played it pianissimo. In an obituary praising Jordan's 40 years on the bench, La Prensa reported he had died "unexpectedly...
...Liberator San Martin, but Bruce begged off. Ambassadors, he said, ought not to take medals from foreign governments. "The main thing I want from you," he said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...
...stubborn opposition to the U.S. in hemispheric councils. At the U.N. he made a flashy try at reconciling the Western powers and Russia on the Berlin blockade. But at home, on la Señora's orders, he was rewarded with a campaign of insulting silence in the Peronista press and on the radio (TIME...
...continent lining up pro-democratic trade unionists. He knew intimately the leader of every I.L.O. worker delegation, and though his role at the conference was only an adviser's, he was unquestionably the most influential man present. Even the Argentines, who had bustled in 37-strong, handing out Peronista tracts, wisely decided to string along with...