Word: salgado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four candidates in the race for the Presidency, two were moralizers and two materialists, General Juarez Távora and Right-Winger Plinio Salgado, both considered deeply religious, vowed to clean up corruption. Juscelino Kubitschek and rich, Falstaffan Adhemar de Barros, both M.D.s, former state governors and practical politicians, vowed to raise living standards. Barros ran well ahead of Kubitschek in the big cities; Kubitschek piled up his plurality in the inland towns and farm villages, where the P.S.D. machine operated most efficiently, and where most of the voters had laid eyes on no other presidential candidate. The final count...
Madrid's official Roman Catholic weekly ECCLESIA, the only publication in Spain that escapes government censorship, attacking the new restrictive press law proposed by Franco's Chief Censor GABRIEL ARIAS SALGADO...
...worst evils of a democratic state is public opinion. [It] must be subject to the vigilance of authority . . . Those who still clamor for so-called freedom of the press demonstrate that they are very backward people." Thus, Franco's Minister of Information Gabriel Arias Salgado explained the "philosophy" behind the proposed new press law that he was trying to have passed last week...
...Arias Salgado's law would force Spain's 72 privately owned dailies to be even more subservient to the government than they already are. It would require a publisher to submit to the government the name of his editor in chief, who would be the boss of the paper, responsible not to his publisher and owners but only to Arias Salgado himself...
...prevent the "backward people" of Spain from protesting against his law, Arias Salgado allowed not a word of it to appear in the press. But Cabinet members protested that the publishers should be heard from before the law was passed. Dictator Franco agreed, put off action until the publishers have a chance to file their objections. Actually, Arias Salgado's proposed law would only put on the statute books powers that the government already exercises under a "provisional law" that went into effect 16 years...