Word: aleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though the moon was still shining brightly on the wings of airplanes on the field, and the mountain air was chill, a thousand people were on hand to bid him goodbye. As the Sacred Cow labored off the runways, Harry Truman was worrying a little. Mexico's President Aleman was to visit him next month, and he wondered if his busy fellow Norte-Americanos would take time to match the hospitality he had encountered south of the border...
...stop in the bright morning sunlight, the carefully rehearsed formalities began. President Truman hopped out brisk & cheerful, despite his early (2:59 a.m.) takeoff, to meet U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston and his aides, drawn up on the cement apron. At the same moment Mexico's President Miguel Aleman started down a specially built staircase from the observation platform (which had been newly decorated with brown rugs, leather office furniture, gleaming brass spittoons). The 21-gun salute due a chief of state boomed out; the U.S. and Mexican anthems sounded...
...round of ceremony began again. President Truman drove over to the National Palace for a formal welcome by President Aleman. At 7:30 he was back for a state dinner in the Comedor under the great crystal candelabra installed by Mexico's ill-fated Maximilian and Carlotta...
President Miguel Aleman was sure to raise the subject of an Export-Import Bank loan-possibly as much as $400,000,000-to make his ambitious new program of irrigation and industrialization stick. But that would take time, and there were no experts in the Truman party of seven. Perhaps when Aleman came north to repay the call in April the two men would be more ready to talk...
...next month the President had a real vacation in mind. He planned a nonstop flight to Mexico City for a visit with President Miguel Aleman. On the way back he would stop off at Waco, Tex., to get an honorary degree from Baylor University† and later in the week go on to witness part of the Atlantic Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean...