Word: rdoba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aguirre Cámara comes of an old family in Córdoba Province. In both political and private life his record is so blameless that even the slugging nationalist press of Buenos Aires has not been able to smear him. His aged patrician mother still chooses his clothes. When he was Finance Minister of Córdoba, he gave her his paycheck every week, like a boy on his first...
Delfino v. Dafoe. Last July the prosperous Diligentis were vacationing in a fashionable resort in the Córdoba Hills, 400 miles from Buenos Aires. The Señora, who was expecting, came down to Buenos Aires for a routine check-up by slender, capable Midwife Ana Delfino. Her personal calculations allowed her 20 days, but the midwife knew better, put her to bed at once in her own house. At 9 a.m. on July 15, 1943, little Franco arrived, followed at 20-minute intervals by María Fernanda, Carlos Alberto, and María Ester...
Midwife Delfino wrapped the babies in cotton wool, bedded them down with hot-water bottles. There was no miraculous Dr. Dafoe, hardly any trouble. Papa Diligenti hurried back from Córdoba. After five days he took the mother and three of the babies home, the others two days later. Remembering the Dionne circus with horror, he swore the midwife to secrecy. Says Midwife Delfino: "I am a mother myself, and I swore on the lives of my children...
...disappeared from an air base. Shortly the Government ordered all of its warplanes immobilized, their magnetos removed. Troops at the Paraná air base were confined to quarters for twelve hours. Soon new troops took over at Paraná and the Government's Aviation School at Córdoba. Aviation munitions were moved from airports to infantry depots and the Military College at El Palomar. Commander of Army Aviation General Angel Maria Zuloaga not only resigned but, the next day, was removed by decree. The Government announced that disaffection among many Argentine flyers would be investigated...