Word: chapultepec
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...footnote p. 28: ... At the time of the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry in 1859, Robert E. Lee had been addressed by the Army as "Colonel Lee" for over eleven years, having received that rank by brevet for his services at the storming of Chapultepec...
Then around the corner came the presidential Cadillac. Aleman climbed in, rode off to his Chapultepec home...
President Harry Truman moved swiftly to tidy up U.S. hemispheric affairs. Within three days, he agreed that Argentina had fulfilled her commitments under the Act of Chapultepec, brusquely accepted the resignations of Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Ambassador to Argentina George Messersmith...
...said: "I have never worn striped pants and I never will." Fellow diplomats got to know him as a genial, hard-drinking six-footer who preferred, in the Spanish phrase, "to talk with his pants off" (i.e., frankly). But he worked well with U.S. diplomats at San Francisco and Chapultepec. In 1946 he resigned in disapproval of President Velasco Ibarra's erratic domestic policies. Last week, Ecuadorians heard that he might not take his Senate seat, but declare himself at once as a candidate for President...
...Work. The quick-witted labor lawyer from Vera Cruz thrives on such fare. Mornings he works at the palace. Not till 3 does he break off for lunch. Afterwards he works, with sleeves rolled up and collar open, in the law-book-lined office of his Chapultepec-home. Sometimes the biggest issues get settled there...