Word: prensa
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...Only from Argentina, whose authoritarian Government is busily cultivating an anti-U.S. bloc, came published approval. Buenos Aires' pro-Government newspaper El Cabildo could not "disguise our joy" at the revolt, "which had not surprised us. . . . We had expected it." The great democratic papers of Argentina, La Prensa and La Nation did not rejoice. The U.S. State Department, caught with its striped pants down, reserved comment until it could belatedly discover what elements were behind the revolt...
...Effect. Led by the nation's greatest newspaper, La Prensa, which no Argentine Government has dared to ban, the press gradually found its voice and published the majority demands. Sentiment against the Government snowballed. By midweek the "state of siege" decree muzzling the press had weakened so far that newspapers could print a Pan American declaration signed by 150 prominent Argentines. Next day the Government dismissed all public officials who had signed...
Where the printed word has lost its first wonder, there is evidence that the political power of the press has declined. In Argentina, in 1916, the remarkable Irigoyen became President without the support of either of the two big Buenos Aires newspapers, La Prensa and La Nación. In 1929 only one national daily newspaper in Great Britain supported the Labor Party, but that party, aided by the trade-union press, won more seats in the House of Commons than any other. In 1936, newspapers with 60% to 70% of U.S. circulation were for Alf Landon...
...pencil and turns out opposition editorials so ironic, incisive and adroit that even his enemies read them. Critica, nearest in spirit to good American newspapers, is a hard-hitting sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers and not one ad salesman, does not hesitate to criticize the government or anybody. In a cloistered courtyard, where grey-uniformed copy boys respectfully fold copy into a silver cup, to be pulleyed to editorial balconies, this great old paper represents a fine tradition of Western...
...Prensa's only winner widely known to the U.S. public was in the class of female entertainers: the explosive Spanish gypsy dancer, Carmen Amaya (TIME, Feb. 17, 1941). Hollywood's cavern-mouthed Carmen Miranda came in 20th, famed Dancer Argentinita 37th...