Word: sammartinos
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Handsome, fire-eating Ernesto Enrique Sammartino, 46, was a charter member of the anti-Perón club. In 1940, the Colonels' Clique tossed him into jail for his outspoken opposition. Last year, back in Congress, he called for a non-violent "civil insurrection." The President paid little attention, but dapper Ernesto included Eva Duarte de Perón in his attacks, and she does not take such things lightly...
...When Sammartino rose in the Chamber last June to denounce the President for a series of articles he had written for the U.S. press (TIME, July 12), he was asking for real trouble. Under Argentina's battered constitution, members of Congress may be expelled by a two-thirds vote for "gross misconduct." Sammartino's Peronista enemies decided that "gross misconduct" included offenses against presidential dignity...
Peronista Deputy José Conte Grand put the expulsion motion before the house. In support of the motion he quoted one of Sammartino's remarks: "A President who believes that the nation's history begins and ends with him shows at least a lack of mental and moral equilibrium...