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...taken to carrying a pistol on the seat beside him when he goes out in a car. When he journeyed to Cordoba last month, elaborate safety precautions were taken. The official announcement said he would go by plane. But the presidential train was made ready at Buenos Aires' Retiro station, and word quickly leaked out that he was really going by rail. Then, with any would-be assassins doubly confused, he departed by yacht up the Paraná River, later completing the trip...
Both turned out in Buenos Aires' Retiro Park for a mammoth show marking the first anniversary of the purchase of the national railways from their British owners. It was a full-blown Peronista rally, and the speeches had all the flavor of the old oligarch-baiting times. Without bothering to offer proof, Perón's Transport Minister proclaimed that the railways (reported last month to be losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary...
...President. In Buenos Aires' Parque Retiro, there was a different kind of demonstration. PerÓn henchmen had invited 2,000 guests to a dinner to inaugurate a rump Radical (centrist) Party, announce Juan PerÓn's bid for the Presidency. There were shouts of "Viva PerÓn," "The nation is with...
Intimate Hour. He got four pesos a day in a café, where he married the cashier. His playing attracted a well-known singer named Maruca Perez, and Lara moved on to the famous El Retiro restaurant near the bull ring. He began writing music for revues at the Teatro Lirico, in 1932 was signed by Mexico's leading radio station for a program well named the Hora Intima, This has become Mexico's most popular radio feature...
...from one to three days the lay communicant usually meditates, prays, confesses, is sermonized. The retreatant contributes what he likes (average: $10). In the West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman of National...