Word: asuncion
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...cool of one morning last week, army officers in high-collared khaki blouses rushed frantically through the streets of Asuncion, placing their troops at strategic corners. Over the walls of the Military College peered little brown soldiers, guns pointed at the nearby Government House. Out at Campo Grande aviation school, cadets stood by their poised machines. But the careful preparations laid by army and navy* garrisons were unnecessary, for their leaders executed a neat little revolution without firing a shot, placed the Government under military control, forced the resignation of the Cabinet...
...military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such a frenzy that they refused to obey Provisional President Franco's order...
When Carlos Chavez began to write music he was barely out of his teens. A seventh child, he was born near Mexico City in 1899, first studied piano with his brother Manuel, later with teachers like Asuncion Parra and Pedro Ogazón. At 22, Chavez met José Vasconcelos, the radical Secretary of Education who hired Rivera to paint the famous murals in his Secretariat. Vasconcelos gave Chavez the commission for his first ballet, The New Fire...
...complete lesson in world cotton geography. In North America the name Anderson, Clayton & Co. can be found in Montreal, Boston, New Bedford, Providence, Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch in Le Havre. In Milan it does business as Lamar Fleming & Co., in Liverpool as D. F. Pennefather & Co. Its representatives are scattered from Goteborg, Sweden, to Barcelona...
...Asuncion this made the new Dictator feel that he had better say something which would sound enlightened, and, like most South Americans, he has a natural flair for such pure forensics. Calling in correspondents, Colonel Franco cried...