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...pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Last week the world's biggest mural project was being smeared across the walls and ceilings of Mexico City's vasty Abelardo Rodriguez Market by nine youthful painters, the eldest little more than 30. Five of them had never done a mural before...
...Abelardo Rodriguez Market, covering four blocks of Mexico City's slum section, was finished last year and named for Mexico's immensely wealthy President Rodriguez. Besides being one of the world's largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action...
...President Roosevelt-such a wonderful personality, such affability! What a host! Really a remarkable man, remarkable!" exclaimed onetime President Abelardo Rodriguez of Mexico after Franklin Roosevelt had entertained him at a stag luncheon...
...swearing in of a President of Mexico no Bible is possible. Last week, as though going to a bull fight, those affable, spur-clinking atheists, President Abelardo Rodriguez and President-elect Lazaro Cardenas (TIME, Dec. 3), drove through a frantically cheering rabble to the National Stadium, packed with 50,000 inauguration addicts...
...Year Plan: 1934-40. New President Cárdenas, who must put punch into it, is the pure Indian and highly radical "Left Hand" of Chief Calles. General Abelardo Rodriguez, the outgoing President of Mexico, who this year launched the Six-Year Plan, was Chief Calles' rich, part Spanish and less radical "Right Hand...