Word: capitolio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...velvet-curtained room off the Capitolio's Senate chamber, three Peronista Senators were quietly but efficiently remaking the Argentine judiciary. Their power stemmed from a previously unnoticed paragraph in the new Peron constitution (TIME, March 29) which provided that all federal justices be confirmed by the Senate. The clause, as interpreted by the Senate, was retroactive; it covered all sitting judges as well as new appointees...
...hushed Bogotá, the delegates to the International Conference of American States were ready to talk seriously. Fresh in their minds was the Commie-aided insurrection which had blasted them out of Bogotá's Capitolio, endangered their lives, killed 1,200 Colombians. Owlish Colombian Foreign Minister Zuleta Angel rose quietly. "We will now consider the question of democracy in the Americas," he said...
...special conference to be called later this year. But debate was as long-winded as ever. By eleven to ten, delegates finally chose "Organization of American States" as their hemispheric system's new name. This week, still talking, they prepared to move back to the largely undamaged Capitolio, to adopt the new organization's charter...
...been an enshrined hero. For a month, they had burned with resentment because Conservative Party Leader Laureano Gómez had kept him from being a delegate to the International Conference. As Gaitán lay on the surgeon's table, his hysterical supporters stormed the Capitolio, screaming, "Death to Laureano...
Bombs & Machetes. In the fire-blackened three days that followed, conference delegates escaped injury. The Mexicans walked out of the Capitolio in the first hour of the uprising, carrying their tricolor flag. Secretary of State George Marshall, at his suburban residence, was safe but marooned...