Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice married, John first carried his growing family about with him in a caravan. He made a habit of dropping in on gypsy encampments, and learned some gypsy dialects. The gypsies represented everything .his father had tried to warn him against, and he devotes more space in his autobiography to happy memories of the gypsies than to his own children, with whom he was rather strict...
Crammed with white-suited politicos, the six-car caravan headed west from Havana along the broad Central Highway. At town after sugar-mill town, Liberal party leaders had turned out crowds to wave at Presidential Candidate Ricardo Núñez Portuondo. By the time he made his speech of the day, at Pinar del Rio, it was 1 a.m. "People are sick and tired of four years of Grauism," he thundered. The guayabera-clothed farmers had stayed to cheer. "Fuera-out with them," they yelled...
...never "hired" by Mr. John Huston as he stated according to your review of Treasure of Sierra Madre [TIME, Feb. 2]. . . . When I was introduced to a certain gentleman - one of the very few genuine gentlemen in the caravan that the Warners shipped to Mexico for their boo-bah-booing there -he looked at me hard and sharp for two seconds and asked: "Suppose you had something to do with that picture in general, or, let's assume, with the music or sound effects, what would you suggest?" After I had talked about four minutes, he interrupted me short...
...screamed jubilant party functionaries. When it was all over, veteran Chicago newsmen knew that a dazzling political star had been born. Wrote Sun & Timesman John Dreiske: "He was a smash hit. There once were those who gloomily opined he should not travel in the same caravan with Paul H. Douglas [Democratic candidate for Senator] because of the danger [that] he would be eclipsed by that brilliant orator. Put away your handkerchiefs. Don't cry for Stevie...
Shocked at the discovery that the Navajo Indians face starvation and even death this winter (TIME, Nov. 3), the nation suddenly began sending them relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...