Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholic, democratic Colombia last week rocked with a Guy Fawkes scandal. Almost on the eve of Congressional elections, police surrounded the impressive colonial Cathedral of Bogota. Before a party of Church and Government officials who sped to the scene, they respectfully uncovered 800 bombs in the organ loft...
President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, temporarily discommoded by something that tried to be a revolution, President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, temporarily discommoded by something that tried to be a revolution, returned to work in Bogota...
...Individual Madness." In Bogota, news of the revolt reached Government Minister Alberto Lleras, who promptly rallied the cabinet around Vice President Dario Enchandia. Garrisons had also revolted in Bucaramanga and Ibague. Acting President Enchandia declared a state of civil war, called the revolt "an act of individual madness...
Dilly-Doily. In Bogota, N.J., sidewalk superintendents watched two steeple jacks climb 750 feet to repair the smokestacks of the Continental and Federal Paper Co., wondered as one of them began to embroider a doily while waiting for a fresh batch of cement, eventually discovered they were lady steeple jacks...
...that TIME Air Express is looked forward to each week by almost every U.S. family living in Latin America and the West Indies and by thousands of other business, political and cultural leaders. We have watched its operations expand to include special printings (for quicker delivery) in Mexico City, Bogota, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. . . . But the great question is whether TIME-by-Air is helping to bring Americans of both continents closer together-and now the time has come to take stock frankly...