Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat. Ever since Spruille Braden, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs, talked tough as U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires last summer, U.S. hemispheric policy had been aimed at the overthrow of Argentina's Strong Man Juan Perón. Last week Washington policy-makers knew where that policy had got them: 1) Argentines, in free elections, apparently had chosen Juan Perón their President; 2) the U.S. would have to try a new tack...
...made the musicomedy Let's Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers, decayed teeth; took him into training with a few key words like "Shad-ap!" (indicating a tough top sergeant) or "hut, tut, t'ree, fo" (for long marches). But mostly it was all "riddle-de biddle, de reep...
...Tough & Tougher. Joe Di Giorgio has been battling ever since he ran away from his home in Sicily at 14. At 19, he was operating his own fruit commission house in Baltimore. At 21, he started the Atlantic Fruit Co., imported bananas in competition with big United Fruit. When it cut prices to fight Di Giorgio, Joe proved that he was tough, too. He invaded United Fruit's European market, became such an annoyance that United Fruit made peace...
Coffee-colored Bustamante gathered his tough dock workers, bawled out orders (dictated to his common-law wife-secretary): "Handle the strikers with an iron hand." In reply, Norman Washington Manley, leftist leader of the defiant T.U.C., called strikes among prison guards, firemen and railroad workers. Armed mobs of rival unionists prowled the streets. Three men were killed. Bustamante was hit on the head by a brick...
...unite behind Peron as they had when Cordell Hull blasted away at him. That would mean victory for Peron in the forthcoming election. Other Latin nations might jib at lone-handed, stiff-necked U.S. action. But last week press and unofficial reaction throughout the hemisphere backed up the U.S. tough talk. If the Blue Book had not helped Argentina's democratic opposition, neither had it hurt it, apparently...