Word: cabildo
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Workers were busy last week restoring the roof of the Cabildo, New Orleans' 1795 landmark, when a fire apparently ignited by their soldering irons did the opposite. The blaze destroyed the mansard roof and cupola of the Louisiana State Museum, as the building is officially known, and its third floor. Fire fighters went inside while the roof was still burning to rescue portraits and historical artifacts. But historical furniture and some works of art were ruined. The Cabildo, where the Louisiana Purchase was completed in 1803, is regarded as one of America's most treasured landmarks. Fortunately, thanks...
...Argentina, before, during and after Juan and Eva Perón: "There is no history in Argentina. There are no archives; there are only graffiti and polemics and school lessons. Schoolchildren in white dust coats are regularly taken round the Cabildo building in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to see the relics of the War of Independence. The event is glorious; it stands in isolation; it is not related, in the textbooks or in the popular mind, to what immediately followed: the loss of law, the seeking out of the enemy, endless civil wars, gangster rule...
...next morning, the President was airborne, on his way to New Orleans and the Louisiana Purchase sesquicentennial ceremonies. The city was in a Mardi gras mood, and more than 150,000 Louisianians turned out to give Ike a roaring welcome. In his brief speech in front of the historic Cabildo, the President hinted that he might seek lower tariffs. The whole American economy, he said, is dependent on foreign trade, and "this dependence is sure to increase as the tempo of our industry increases. It highlights the most compelling practical reason why we must have friends in the world...
...announced the imminence of elections; 2) reinstated previously expelled democratic professors; 3) closed the pro-Axis newspapers Cabildo and El Pampero. But the declarations of war against Germany and Japan by six American sister nations (TIME, Feb. 19) caught Argentina flatfooted, isolated her anew...
...nationalist press took up the cry. La Fronda denounced the hordes of Moscow "marching from the Asiatic steppes." Cabildo demanded "war without mercy against the Reds." The Government's police swarmed over Buenos Aires...