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...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...
...Tenant. What lent some authority to the story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration...
...friend Ussishkin called them), Weizmann continued to argue. He fought assimilationists and Marxist revolutionaries alike. When Lenin, Trotsky and Plekhanov (who frequented the same cafés) heard of his "counter revolutionary" talk, Plekhanov, in a rage, objected. Weizmann shot back: "But Monsieur Plekhanov, you are not the Czar...
...their fancy offices down the street from Argentina's Government Palace, the editors of the great La Prensa sniffed red-hot news. In a single day last week three stocks in which Economic Czar Miguel Miranda was known to have large holdings had plunged 20 to 40 points on the Buenos Aires exchange. La Prensa's best reporters were sent out to find...
Next morning, La Prensa broke one of the biggest stories in months: Economic Czar Miguel Miranda was out of office, his National Economic Council was to be abolished, and his one-man dictatorial setup supplanted by a whole new financial team. That night decrees from Government Palace confirmed La Prensa's story in almost every detail...