Word: blancos
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...just a poet on loan to politics," said Venezuela's new Foreign Minister Andres Eloy Blanco. "I'm not a foreign Minister, but I will try to make myself...
...appointing 51-year-old Poet Blanco, Venezuela's Novelist-President Rómulo Gallegos knew that he had laid his hand on a man who had the confidence of Venezuela's common people. Blanco, an unassuming little man with sunken cheeks and burning eyes, is their country's foremost poet and orator. The fact that he presided last week over the Foreign Office in the Casa Amarilla in Caracas was a sort of personal triumph for them...
...Blanco has spent more than half his life fighting dictatorship. He began writing poetry at 14, at 27 won a 25,000-peseta ($3,250) award from the Royal Spanish Academy. Long before that, he was deep in the revolutionary movement against Dictator Juan Vicente...
Prison Verses. In 1928, Blanco started the anti-Gomez weekly El Impartial, soon made it the most influential paper in Caracas. In due time a copy fell into Tyrant Gómez's hands and Editor Blanco went to jail, spent four years in grillos (leg irons). "I witnessed tortures that were incredible," he said. "I saw them sentence one man to 1,000 lashings and saw him die after...
...Crimson lineup: Batcheler, g: Burrowes, rf; Scully, lf; Mavor, rh; Louria, ch; Ogfan, lh; Spivak, ro; Potter, ri; Aguirre, of; Chun, li; Dawson, lo. Substitutes: Blanco, Heisler, Estin, Harrop. Seamans, Carswell, Toulmin, Jessner, Wallace Ragle. Gibbert...