Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Elizabeth Dodero Shannon, 45, onetime Ziegfeld showgirl (stage name: Betty Sundmark) who. while appearing in Monte Carlo Follies, met and married Argentine Shipping Magnate Alberto Dodero, became an international-set hostess and an intimate friend of Argentine Dictator Juan Peron and wife Eva; in Manhattan. To solidify her husband's personal-business relationship with Peron, Betty once stripped a diamond ring off her finger to give Eva when she admired...
...authority, made it autonomous under a board of directors. He moved into the Eximbank as a director. In 1956 Brand performed his biggest coup by persuading a group of Government agencies and eleven private banks to grant an unprecedented $329 million loan to help stabilize the Argentine economy after Peron's fall...
...plot was originally set for the last week in July. But last month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan...
Born. To Nelly Rivas, 20, Lolita-like friend at 14 of fading Argentine Dictator Juan Peron, and Carlos José Ramil, 25, a U.S. Embassy accountant in Argentina: their first child, a son; in Buenos Aires. Name: Carlos Joseé Jr. Weight...
...three dictators, Perón seems to be accepting his plight most resignedly. Trujillo thought that Peron seemed too much of a showpiece living in his Ciudad Trujillo hotel; the weary Argentine obligingly donned his red baseball cap, gathered his blonde secretary, poodles, a motorcycle and a motor scooter and headed for a country villa. For his exurban retreat, he chose a soft-blue-and-white stucco house seven miles east of the capital, facing out over the Caribbean. As explanation of the move, he said that he was "bothered" by the noisy Cuban exiles who invaded his hotel when...