Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I was young I used to wait On master and give him his plate, And pass the bottle when he got dry, And brush away the blue-tail...
What finally burned Juan Plate to a crisp, it appeared, was what Chief of Staff Aranda had to say about a proposal to build schools for 74,000 Paraguayan children. The Colonel's answer: the Army's needs were more urgent; the children could wait. The Army would see to their education (the boys, anyhow) when they...
When Colonel Aranda read Juan Plate's statement last week he thundered: "Paraguayans' patriotism must be protected from exotic ideologies and from political excesses. The crucible where this gift [patriotism] is forged is in the barracks...
...finally voiced this view was Paraguay's round-faced, Dutch-descended Juan Plate, Minister of Finance. Last week, fed up, Juan. Plate resigned, gave his reasons in an angry document addressed to President Higinio Morinigo. A copy got out to Montevideo, and Dutchman Plate's blast against the Army be came public property...
...Spiraling Budget. What Minister Plate had to say was that the Army's insistent demands were driving Paraguay's budget clear out of sight; the Army was spending more annually than it had spent during the Chaco war. Under French-trained President José Félix Estigarribia, the Army had been kept in its place, but since Morinigo had taken office (1940), the colonels had got out of hand. Particularly rambunctious was the Chief of Staff, Colonel Bernardo Aranda, who had shown signs of liking the way the colonels did things down in Argentina. This year...