Word: sosa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portrait down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
...next day, Peronistas were cockier than ever. At the army's vast Campo de Mayo base, the President and his blonde wife were ostentatiously received by their recent critic, Defense Secretary José Humberto Sosa Molina. In a speech dripping with consideration for Señora Perón, Sosa Molina said: "The significance of her presence among us as a special guest of honor is nothing but a stout denial of rumors that picture the army as opposing...
...leave that task to him for the present. Meanwhile, the high-flying Señora was reported setting her sights to bring down the boss of the army, whose criticisms had caused her so much recent embarrassment. When this news was conveyed to Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina, at his big army base outside the capital, the general's comment was blunt & brief: "If she wants me out, let her come to Campo de Mayo...
Resignations & Refusals. Meanwhile, the army collected a fresh token of prestige as the War Minister, General José Humberto Sosa Molina, was named to the new post of Defense Minister, in charge of air, naval and ground forces. Army pressure unquestionably had been a decisive factor in forcing onetime Economic Czar Miguel Miranda out of office and probably could do the same thing to Perón, if the army chose to. At week's end, Buenos Aires sources reported that the President had already suggested that he resign, only to be told to stay where...
...President and la Señora had gone to their country place at nearby San Vicente, but the President got little rest. Official callers, high among them War Minister Sosa Molina, kept him so busy that he failed to make his scheduled address of welcome to the Inter-American Travel Congress, and sent no regrets for his absence. Without newspapers to give the reason for this strange behavior, rumor-fed Argentines began to talk ominously of political change...