Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign trade almost half gone, with unemployment growing, with an election-fraud scandal stewing and with no 1941 budget voted, Argentina last week drifted perilously close to the rocks of political chaos. Only two men seemed to have any idea of what to do about it, and Juan Pueblo, as Argentinos call the man-in-the-street, did not trust either...
...Radicales and Conservadores, would choose common candidates for the principal offices to be filled in provincial elections this year. For minor offices each camp would run its own candidates. While wily Marcelo de Alvear kept mum, Pinedo let the deal out of the bag and the press and Juan Pueblo waxed indignant...
...Finance Minister obliged by tendering his resignation last week. He made it stick in spite of Acting President Ramón S. Castillo's refusal to accept it. Juan Pueblo was not sure whether the resignation was a confession of defeat or a maneuver to pose as a martyred patriot. Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon...
...Congressional agenda, a step which would produce nothing but more wind. From his sickbed half-blind President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz advised the Radicals to collaborate with the Government and a Radical Deputy resigned his seat in protest. As the Ship of State veered sharply toward the shallows Juan Pueblo thought he saw on the tiller the crafty hand of onetime President General Agustín P. Justo, the only other man in Argentina with a plan...
...Juan Pueblo suspects that the Justo plan is to wait until Argentina is practically on the rocks, then to jettison the crew and take command. Juan did not like the looks of this at all, but for the moment he did not see what could be done about...