Word: salazarism
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Portugal, which has not had a real election for 20 years, held another mock ballot this week. Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's ticket won a unanimous victory. The opposition, protesting that registration lists were rigged, abstained from voting...
Some observers in Lisbon thought, however, that at a time when authoritarianism was out of fashion, Strong Man Salazar might have lost more than he gained by an election he called "as free as those in England." Though his budgets balance perfectly as ever, food is scarce, living costs up 60 to 100%. Resentments kindled in the elections might catch fire later among the businessmen. Communists, intellectuals and naval officers who comprise his disunited opposition...
Joseph Stalin's face appeared in Portuguese newspapers for the first time in 20 years. The Salazar dictatorship dropped its ban, and every morning paper in Lisbon blossomed with a picture...
...free press sprang up. Most Guatemalans joined labor "guilds," exacted living wages for the first time. Tight Ubico monopolies were broken up. Pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Carlos Salazar was forced into retirement. The Government at last expropriated German-owned coffee plantations. Refugees returned. The Presidential campaign got under...
Universal's Columnist Ruben Salazar Mallen observed: "Mexicans are guilty of letting Stokowski run over them. They have an inferiority complex. . . . Mexico and Stokowski are guilty." Famed Composer Carlos Chavez submitted that "it is sufficient to recall that the Mexican Symphony Orchestra has been functioning regularly -without disputes - for the last 16 years." Stokowski wrote an open letter of explanation to Mexico's President Avila Camacho...