Word: casa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucchese's idea of the best was a four-story, $1,250,000 foreign-trade center in San Antonio, called Casa de Mexico. In the center he planned a 2,500-seat movie theater, a penthouse with bar and lounge and, in the wings, offices for firms engaged in U.S.-Mexican trade...
This week, the half-finished Casa de Mexico got its first tenant, Mexican Consul General Gustavo Ortiz Hernan. Lucchese was sure that by the time construction was finished in the fall, the 87 other offices would be rented, mostly, he hoped, to importers and exporters...
...have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into a sacrosanct closed session to demand immediate appointment of some friends as judges. The outraged Senators politely told her to scram. When Evita complained to Juancito, the entire body was summoned to the Casa Rosada to be scolded officially for bad manners...
...Argentina when the strain on U.S.-Argentine relations was at its height. He had eased the strain. Now, to salute the new U.S.Argentine friendship with which Argentines identify Ambassador Messersmith,*President Juan Perón had ordered a rousing sendoff. Earlier in the week he had invited Messersmith to Casa Rosada, decorated him with Argentina's valued Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin, and embraced him while Senator Alberto Teisaire and other big shots applauded...
...this President Perón remembered last week as he strode through the heavily carpeted chambers of the Casa Rosada, chain-smoking strong "43" cigarets, trying to make up his mind. His decision was finally made between ballet numbers in Buenos Aires' rococo Teatro Colón. He dispatched quaking Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi to the block-square police headquarters in Calle Moreno to hand Velazco his ultimatum. Borlenghi had reason to quake; Velazco had publicly slapped him only four months before...