Word: rosada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cabinet decided only to postpone action until Perón could appeal to the people once more. He was to get a chance this week; Vuletich ordered a four-hour token general strike during which labor was to hold a mass meeting in front of the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House). Perón and everyone else knew that the workers would be thinking, "This had better be good." Whether he could still work his oldtime magic over the capital crowds remained to be seen; he had never needed it more...
...Social Aid Foundation and her Women's Party (whose presidency he also assumed last week), Perón has been working harder than ever now that he is alone on the job. Each morning he arrives punctually at 6:25 at the door of the Casa Rosada and gives the captain of the guard a hearty handshake before entering the building. By 6:30 he is busy signing papers. Since his wife's death, he has made no public statement, attended no public function...
Into the Casa Rosada marched a well-briefed delegation of 300 Buenos Aires housewives. They had come to ask President Perón for "collective action and boycott" against the city's chiseling food merchants who had doubled their grocery bills in the past year. With a courteous bow, the President stepped forward on cue and launched another in the series of government campaigns against Argentina's five-year-old inflation...
...Ivan's" ardor and devotion, there seemed to be a fatal flaw. He liked to run the Ministry of Education in his own way and he stubbornly resisted the demands of party politicos with axes of their own to grind. From the standpoint of the Casa Rosada, Oscar Ivanissevich was beginning to seem a little too independent...
Without further ado, the Senate sent its presiding officer, Admiral Alberto Tessaire, off to the Casa Rosada to plead with the President. When this failed, the Senators marched in a body to his residence to renew their plea. This time he was ready with a little speech. "Ethics," he told them, "must be above law. President Peron and General Peron are inseparable. In no instance will I as President sign a promotion for General Peron...