Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that seemed to limit the article's application to civil servants, thus possibly excusing newsmen from its restrictions. In the rush, few heard the tiny Radical minority's shout that the bill was designed not to protect the nation against spies and saboteurs but to protect Peron against opposition. Peron already had the 1948 General Organization Law, giving him unlimited powers the moment he declares that a national emergency exists. With the new bill, his regime would hold an unbreakable legal grip on the lives of Argentina's 16 million citizens...
...Communist and nationalist agitators had clearly touched a sensitive nerve and stirred a deep-seated popular reaction. Juan Peron, who understands his people very well, lost no time in telling them what they wanted to hear. "This afternoon," the President announced to a trade-union meeting, "I was asked in connection with a very important international matter what attitude I would adopt . . . Argentina knows what she has got to do today, and what she will do tomorrow. She will do so in her own good time and for her own benefit-not for anybody else...
Many Latin American governments responded to President Harry Truman's first statement on Korea by offering their cooperation. Argentina's Juan Peron rose to the occasion by calling on the Chamber of Deputies to complete the long-delayed ratification of the 1947 Rio Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. The pact was swiftly approved...
When an American asked him where he had picked up his English, Argentina's Dictator Juan Peron explained: "I put English records on the gramophone in the mornings while I shave...
...jackpot winner had the chance at another question he had long and longingly anticipated. What, asked the announcer, did Bernardo plan to do with his money? Bernardo replied: "I intend to give the entire amount to the Social Aid Foundation ..." The announcer beamed. Everyone thought he obviously meant Evita Peron's richly endowed, much publicized Social Aid Foundation. But Bernardo continued, firmly and clearly: ". . . the Social Aid Foundation of the Socialist Party, of which I happen to be a member." Throwing caution to the winds, the audience burst into cheers...