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Buenos Aires' great independent newspaper La Prensa was dead last week, its life snuffed out by Juan Perón. By act of the rubber-stamp Argentine Congress, the world-famed paper had been expropriated and, in Perón's cynical words, "handed over to the workers for whatever use they think best." La Prensa will soon appear as the mouthpiece of the Perón-dominated General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T...
...debate was stormy and punctuated by the bronze alarm bells ringing for order. The Peronista-packed Chamber of Deputies passed and sent on to the rubber-stamp Senate-which approved it within 100 minutes-a resolution to appoint "a joint congressional committee to intervene and investigate . . . La Prensa, and the firms commercially linked to it, with the purpose of determining a definite program to be adopted ..." Until the Peronista-packed committee made its recommendation, it would in effect control the newspaper, lock, stock and presses...
Aside from reports, the work that takes the most time at the seven annual meetings is the approval of all permanent appointments and those temporary ones of more than one year. Overseers are anxious to make clear that they are no rubber-stamp, but only four men have been turned down in the last 100 years...
...Matters Most." "My opponent is a captive candidate of the C.I.O.," he charged. "The top brass of the labor movement is trying to take over the Democratic Party . . . Do you want people outside the state telling you how to vote? The Administration wants a rubber-stamp Congress. If it gets one, we will have nationalization of medicine and every other welfare service ... I say the Brannan Plan is a fraud. They promise high prices for the farmer and low prices for the consumer, but they don't tell what would happen in between. It would cost the taxpayer about...
What Kind of Congress? "The issue is the same in Illinois as in Ohio," said Taft. "Whether we are going to elect an independent Congress or a rubber-stamp Congress . . . Are we going to establish a socialistic state? If you elect a Democratic Congress and if you move them just a little to the left of the present Congress, you will get the whole [socialist] program...