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...bullet, flat as a dime, and a bit of splintered jawbone were removed from the mouth of President Ortiz Rubio. The other casualties were bandaged and sent home. Speechless but undaunted, as befits a direct descendant of Tzintzicna, last of the 19 Tarrascan Kings who ruled under the Aztec Emperors of Mexico, President Ortiz Rubio insisted on scrawling a telegram to his two handsome sons Fernando and Guillermo, at school in Gettysburg...
...architect, like its architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once...
...Most of his work is a sympathetic tale told with figures that have the bare graphic form of Giotto and the incandescent coloring of the South. Now in his 40's, he was born in a mining town of Guanajuato. His middle-class parents gave him Spanish and Aztec blood. It is only the Aztec heritage that he prizes in himself and in his country. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mexico, studying art at the Mexican National Academy where his early work showed the soft imitative convention. Like most young artists he looked first...
...Idzikowski, 60 miles off Cape Finisterre, Spain, by the German steamship Samos. After a year's palaver with the Polish Ministry of War, they had left Paris, intending to pursue the southern route to the Azores, thence to Halifax, thence to New York. Ten hours later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec. Manifestly they either were lost or deliberately returning toward Europe. Near Cape Finisterre...
...White House to be in line for the President and Mrs. Coolidge at 11. Then they went to the lavish Pan-American Building to have a diplomatic buffet breakfast with the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. As they smoked Mr. Kellogg's cigarets and watched the Aztec fountain play, they exchanged many a felicitation. Most of Washington's bigwigs and their ladies were there-Cabinet members, ambassadors, ministers, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, Army and Navy officers...