Word: gonz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anybody could come and tell his troubles to the President. Every Wednesday morning Gabriel González Videla cleared his desk, shooed away Cabinet Ministers, and for three hours held "Audiencias Populares." The sessions became so popular with Chile's Juan Pueblo that the waiting list soon reached...
Last week Gonzá1ez received some 200 man-in-the-street callers in his huge, gilt-&-damask office. A taxi driver under 60 days' sentence for drunkenness explained that he was not driving while drunk-just sitting in his taxi on the edge of town, knowing that he had had one too many. The President suspended sentence...
...young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns. Gonzá1ez told his secretary to find...
...many of last week's callers were women complaining that their husbands had run away from home and children that Gonzá1ez said, within earshot of reporters, that he meant to ask for stronger laws against men who abandoned their families...
...Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plan was temporarily shelved after Bolivians overthrew their pro-Perón Villarroel Government last July. But the Chileans, if they felt any fears of Argentine-domination, kept quiet about them. The press without exception praised the Argentine treaty, generally gave President González Videla high marks for starting the project. Said González himself: "There is absolutely no reason to fear Argentine economic penetration. . . ." Chileans obviously saw it all as a means to prosperity. Whatever the ultimate political significance, Argentines backed the treaty for the same reason...