Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstanding figures were Argentina's President Ramón S. Castillo; Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazú; onetime Argentine Ambassador to Spain Daniel Garcia Mansilla (the presiding dignitary); the Most Rev. Roberto José Tavella, Archbishop of Salta; and Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Admiral Antonio Magaz y Pers, Marquis of Magaz. They convened as the first Congress of Hispano-American Culture...
Champion Lost was the nation's outstanding liberal. Roberto M. Ortiz, who last month, after two politically impotent years of diabetic near-blindness, resigned the presidency to Acting President Castillo (TIME, July 6). Twenty days later, struck also with influenza and bronchopneumonia. Ortiz died. Thus passed the man who had been elected in 1938 by the largest popular vote in the nation's history...
Kindly, double-chinned Roberto Ortiz would have been a rarity anywhere, especially in Latin America: a man who inherited and made wealth (he increased the importing fortune of his Basque father to $4,000,000), yet steered steadily toward democracy. As Argentina's Minister of Public Works and Finance Minister, he showed himself a thoroughgoing, determined people's statesman. But for his sickness, he would undoubtedly have been able to lead Argentina on a Pan-American and anti-Axis course...
...freezing in Buenos Aires last week, but no colder than the chances that Argentina would act against the Axis: > Liberal, hemisphere-minded President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, after two years of increasing blindness from diabetes, at last resigned his office. This left the job to conservative Acting President Ramon S (for nothing) Castillo, whose neutrality quivers with Axis-sounding overtones...
...Buenos Aires correspondents knew very well who the chef de protocole was. They had recognized him as Argentina's famed gatecrasher, Júpiter Roberto Perrusi, a onetime $50-a-month postal clerk...