Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army generals again rushed to Perón's rescue (or rather to the rescue of the offices, privileges and rackets they stood to lose if the rebels won). Perón's old crony and army minister, balding General Franklin Lucero, again took command of all loyalist military and police units-the "forces of repression" as the government baldly labeled them. But it was not as underlings carrying out Perón's orders that Lucero & Co. acted. Whether he was shoved or merely nudged, Perón hurried offstage and remained in seclusion. The government...
State of Siege. Under the command of General Franklin Lucero, Perón's trusted Army Minister, the government fought back. Lucero & Co. put the entire country under a state of siege, clamped an 8 p.m. curfew on the capital. Loyalist forces besieged the Rio Santiago naval base. Pounded by planes and outnumbered at least two to one on the ground, the defending navymen surrendered late that night. The next morning the government announced that its troops had wrested Arroyo Seco and Curuzú-Cuatiá from the rebels...
Morrow, who heard about the arrangement, brooded about his role as sacrificial calf. Loyalist Texas Democrats, who want Shivers' scalp, were equally upset by the dealings between him and the national party. Amidst the rumbling, Chairman Butler announced.his plans for a visit to Texas. His sponsors: the violently anti-Shivers Democratic Advisory Committee. Under the circumstances, his trip, hailed as a "peace mission," was likely to be anything...
...state national committeewoman. one of the few Texas Democrats friendly with both Shivers and the National Committee. He wanted her to help avoid trouble "in working out Mr. Butler's schedule." She tried to arrange a meeting in Austin of party leaders from both factions. But the loyalist leadership balked, and the Shivers Democrats decided to boycott arriving Chairman Butler. Snapped Mr. Sam, "I can't make people cooperate...
...cheer. At Uvalde. former Vice President John Nance Garner, 86, who has puttered in privacy for 14 years amidst his pecan trees and chickens, surprisingly opened his gates and invited everybody to "come to my house and meet Mr. Butler." Butler aroused much enthusiasm among loyalist Democrats and got a respectful hearing from some Shivers Democrats who showed up at his rallies. Confidently, he predicted Governor Shivers' eventual return to party councils. Instead of wooing him and his conservative supporters, however, Chairman Butler had hard words for registered Democrats who voted Republican. "The sooner [they] become Republicans, the better...