Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Circulo Militar, the Argentine Army officers' club in B.A., is stiff and dignified enough to be mistaken for the Foreign Office on the other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that...
True & False? Her words fell sweetly on the ears of Franco and his followers. To 40,000 Madrilenos who jammed into the Plaza de Oriente, Evita praised the "true, distributive democracy" of Spain and Argentina. She contrasted it with the "false, deceptive democracy" of other unnamed nations. The crowd roared encouragement, then slowly, beginning with a core of falangistas in the center of the square, raised arms in the officially abolished Fascist salute. Evita, and the Dictator at her side, saluted them back...
Debonair Galo Plaza and his "Democratic Civic Movement" had won an unexpected victory in last week's congressional elections. Organized just three weeks ago, running only in Quito, Ecuador's newest party had racked up a two-thirds majority, elected two Senators and picked off four out of Quito's five Deputies' seats. The Conservatives, hitherto dominant in the capital, were routed. Jubilantly, the new coalition of liberals, leftists and anticlericals set their sights for next year's presidential contest...
...obvious that an old name still worked magic in Ecuador. The man who led the ticket last week was the ex-playboy son of General Leonidas Plaza, twice the country's President and strong man. He was also well known in North America. He had fought bulls in Ecuador, played football at the University of California, sold apples on Manhattan streets when his father cut off his allowance, and shipped as a junior purser with the Grace Line...
Back in Ecuador in 1933, he settled down, married a local society belle-and found the family fortunes in low estate. He proceeded to make the vast Plaza ranch north of Quito a model for Ecuador, brought in the country's first combine, six tractors, and blooded Holstein-Friesian herds. In 1938 he became Defense Minister. Galo Plaza quelled one students' strike by ringing the university with troops, entering and dragging out the two ringleaders by the scruff of their necks, then persuading the rest to quit...