Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radicals indulged in no idle bragging about an election victory. They were fully aware that the entire resources of the government were stacked against them. But they were encouraged that the Peron regime was showing signs of internal strain. The tip-off had been Evita's sudden withdrawal from the vice-presidential race after the disclosure that the army disapproved of her candidacy. Certainly part of the Radicals' new defiance rose from the belief that the army no longer fully backed Perón. But they were not pinning their hopes on a barrackroom revolt. Another Radical orator...
...supercolossal Quo Vadis, which was filmed with the help of 30,000 extras along the banks of the Tiber, amused some Italian onlookers almost as much as it impressed others. Last week in Rome, the Industrie Cinematografiche Sociali finished a good-humored satire called O.K. Nerone (rhymes with Peron-eh), a slapstick take-off on Quo Vadis in particular and extravagant U.S. movie spectacles in general...
Readers of Descartes could also see how Peron's re-election campaign was to be conducted...
Running for President five years ago, Juan Peron campaigned mainly against U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden, who had been rash enough to criticize Peron's dictatorial style. Last week, as the President prepared to run for a second term in 1952, Argentina's government loosed a blast against Peron's favorite electioneering target, the U.S. The attack was launched in the front page of Buenos Aires' semi-official newspaper Democrada, in an editorial signed by "Descartes," a writer generally believed to be Peron himself. Wrote Descartes...
...Vivo Perón Viudo!" But while Peron was emasculating his political opposition, he ran into economic storms. By the middle of 1948, his regime had dissipated some $1.2 billion in foreign exchange that Argentina had piled up during World War II. Some of it went to buy the British-owned railways and the U.S.-owned telephone system and to build up a creditable merchant marine. But millions went down the drain in a reckless buying spree to round up foreign equipment for the President's grandiose five-year industrialization plan. On top of that, IAPI, the state trading...