Word: rdoba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pieces impressed only a handful of U.S. editors.) Those who knew how Perón's rule works found a more convincing explanation. Last week the long established Argentine Federation of Newspapermen, which has refused to knuckle under to Perón, was meeting at Córdoba. By accepting membership in the rival syndicate, President Perón delivered a well understood and pointed rebuke to such independence...
Though he had lost some of his preeminence before his death, 100,000 men followed his bier through the streets of Córdoba, where he was born 30 years ago. At week's end bullfighters, gathered in rings throughout Spain, mourned Manolete with the formal pomp which he loved, as a good bullfighter and a good Spaniard must. In Mexico City they remembered that when word of his death came, lightning had been flashing in the darkened sky. At that moment, the crack of balls and shouted bets in the pelota courts had died away, and the voice...
Bathroom Scene. Ostensible excuse for PerÓn's new wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
...rdoba police ignored a writ of habeas corpus, shipped a college president off for Buenos Aires by train. Furious, the judge who had granted the writ overtook the train in a car, had the prisoner freed. In Buenos Aires, a Radical Party leader locked the arresting officer in a bathroom...
Fritz & the Colonels. In the New World, Fritz Mandl operated with splashy grandeur. The closets of his Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Llao-Llao, and Mar del Plata establishments held 278 suits. His garages sheltered two Rolls-Royces, three Minervas and an Isotta-Fraschini. His parties featured double magnums of champagne and scarce green chartreuse...