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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor Minister Paul Ramadier and Public Works Minister Ludovic Oscar Frossard. These two members of the Union Socialist-Republican Party were promptly replaced by the Premier with two other members of their party, new Labor Minister Charles Pomaret and new Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie. Speculation at once began: would the Union Socialists read Pomaret and de Monzie out of its ranks for standing with Daladier...
...division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams and supplementary public works which today sprout half-completed in all parts of Mexico. Education was stressed to teach peons, accustomed for centuries to kiss the hand of local Mexican bigwigs, to become upstanding armed collectivists...
...this, Sculptor Bufano's artistic friends were not slow to remark that a "drool cloth" was something Mr. Pegler needed himself. Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better. The horseplay stage of the controversy then began. Old Newshawk Pegler played ball with the boys by posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin...
...Ferren, 33, started as a sculptor in 1926. He learned plaster casting in a Los Angeles plaster factory, tombstone cutting in San Francisco. As aids to the problems he was trying to work out in stone, he found himself covering sheets of paper with abstract drawings. In 1930 he began to paint, in 1931 worked his way to Paris, where he found a market for abstractions. He has stayed close to his market ever since...
...Roosevelt's Texas radio career began in 1935. When Hearst Radio, Inc. acquired Station KTSA (San Antonio), it also acquired the vice president in charge of sales, Elliott Roosevelt. Early this year his present wife, the onetime Ruth Googins, bought Station KFJZ (Fort Worth). Elliott has declared emphatically that Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt's station-buying activities were financed by their own money, are completely independent of his Hearst Radio...