Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mendoza, after the man who, according to Boca legend, landed at that very spot when he founded the city of Buenos Aires. In a studio on the third floor Quinquela Martín himself painted and directed the school's activities, agreeing to foot the bills for the museum as long as he lived...
...Tampico Commodore Luis Hurtado de Mendoza, commander of the Naval District, sent messages to the captains of twelve German and Italian vessels lying in harbor, summoning them ashore for a conference. As soon as the skippers set foot on land they were arrested. Boarding parties of Marines then took possession of the ships. Aboard one, the Italian tanker Fede, they reported finding a TNT bomb rigged to explode when the engine was turned over. Another Italian tanker, the Atlas, was already sinking when they boarded her. Her skipper, Captain Lelio Fazzi, had not been lured ashore, had stayed to scuttle...
...oldest, most firmly established German minority (in the southern lake country, where Baron von Thermann went on his vacation). And Chile's extreme Rightists think highly of Chile's fascist-minded onetime President General Carlos Ibanez del Campo, who now lives in restless exile in Mendoza, just over the Andes in Argentina. Baron von Thermann's plane stopped at Mendoza on his way to Santiago...
...though the Ministry of Interior was swamped with protests, Castillo sat tight, the first round safely his. Ortiz, instead of sending a Federal interventor to insure an honest election as he did last March in Buenos Aires, sat tight too. If the Conservatives can repeat this week in the Mendoza elections, they will pick nearly enough electors to insure victory in 1943. If Ortiz lets them, the fight will be over...
...Symphony Orchestra (Decca Little Symphony, David Mendoza conducting; Decca: 22 sides, with explanatory pamphlets). Four albums of pieces in which the members of the string, woodwind, brass and percussion families are easily identifiable...