Word: plata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cortesi's expose, and the furore it caused in diplomatic circles all the way to the San Francisco Conference, were a shot in the arm for the thousands of exiles across the La Plata River in Montevideo. They had long waited for the world to wake up to what was going on in Argentina. Their hopes soared...
Fritz & the Colonels. In the New World, Fritz Mandl operated with splashy grandeur. The closets of his Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Llao-Llao, and Mar del Plata establishments held 278 suits. His garages sheltered two Rolls-Royces, three Minervas and an Isotta-Fraschini. His parties featured double magnums of champagne and scarce green chartreuse...
Meanwhile Colonel Perón and the proud Argentines were exhilarated, most Latin Americans were secretly (or openly) delighted, and even some North Americans were amused to see the brat from the Rio de la Plata stand up and sass back the Colossus of the North...
...winners of 1944 Guggenheim Latin American Fellowships, Professor Alberto Barajas Celis of the National University of Mexico and Dr. Elisha Hirschhorn of La Plata, Argentina, will come to Harvard this year to carry on advanced research work...
Little, democratic Uruguay is a first-class annoyance to big, totalitarian Argentina across the La Plata estuary. Uruguay's irrepressible press takes pot shots at Argentine authoritarians. Uruguayan radio stations fill the air with gay and subversive news of the democratic world...